Food Labelling

What health-related labelling is present for foods and non-alcoholic beverages?

Food labelling on food packaging has the potential to have both positive and negative effects on diets. Monitoring different aspects of food labelling would help to identify priority policy options to help people make healthier food choices.

A taxonomy of the elements of health-related food labelling has been proposed for INFORMAS. A step-wise approach has been developed for independently assessing the nature and extent of health-related food labelling in different countries and over time.

Dr Mike Rayner

Director, British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention

Nuffield Department of Population Health
University of Oxford, UK
Email: Dr Mike Rayner

Monitoring the health-related labelling of foods and non-alcoholic beverages in retail settings (pages 70–81) M. Rayner, A. Wood, M. Lawrence, C. N. Mhurchu, J. Albert, S. Barquera, S. Friel, C. Hawkes, B. Kelly, S. Kumanyika, M. L’Abbé, A. Lee, T. Lobstein, J. Ma, J. Macmullan, S. Mohan, C. Monteiro, B. Neal, G. Sacks, D. Sanders, W. Snowdon, B. Swinburn, S. Vandevijvere, C. Walker and INFORMAS

Read the INFORMAS paper online here

Additional Publications

Below is the INFORMAS Food Labelling Protocol for download. INFORMAS welcomes the use of resources in line with the Terms and Conditions . If you are using and/or adapting an INFORMAS protocol, you must sign and return the Terms and Conditions form to: kelly.garton@auckland.ac.nz.

Terms and Conditions in brief

After returning the Terms and Conditions form above, external users may use, modify, and reproduce the INFORMAS Food Labelling Protocol. However, work that results from use of the INFORMAS resource remains available to the INFORMAS group and falls under the same ‘copyleft’ principles as the original protocol i.e. users cannot claim copyright on protocols developed based on INFORMAS resources. Users do not have to share the entire work that results from using INFORMAS resources but are expected to share:

Any modifications or updates made to the protocol e.g. updates for your own country
The final (cleaned) data as collected using the protocol

For enquiries or information sharing, please contact Grace at grace.tulysewski@adelaide.edu.au (Labelling Module Coordinator).

Protocols

Click to view and download the Food Labelling Protocol

Some protocols are under development. Please contact us if you would like more information.