Front-of-pack nutrition labelling in the UK: building on success
Consultation description
皇冠体育app English version of the consultation closed on 21 October 2020.
皇冠体育app Welsh version of the consultation closed on 5 November 2020.
Front-of-pack nutrition labels (FOPNL) are a crucial intervention to support healthy choices and reduce obesity rates by communicating complex nutritional information to shoppers in a way that鈥檚 easy to understand.
This can reduce dietary intakes of calories and nutrients, such as salt, saturated fat and sugar which, if overconsumed, have been linked to chronic disease.
In the green paper Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s, the government committed to consult on the UK鈥檚 FOPNL. We previously committed to exploring FOPNL in chapter 1 and chapter 2 of the childhood obesity plan.
This consultation asks for your views and evidence on:
- the UK government鈥檚 and devolved administrations鈥� recommended FOPNL scheme, the 鈥榤ultiple traffic light label鈥�
- new international examples, specifically the 鈥榥utri-score鈥� label and 鈥楥hile鈥檚 health warning label鈥� which have gained prominence in recent years
- whether FOPNL should reflect the latest dietary advice on sugar and fibre