Survey on status of prepackaged food nutrition label in Guiyang city
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(School of Public Health,Guiyang Medic University,Guizhou Guiyang 550004,China)

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    To understand the current status of nutrition label on prepackaged foods in Guiyang city.Methods Taking photographs or transcribing the logos on prepackaged foods in 10 supermarkets of Guiyang to record the information of nutrition label. Results A total of 572 kinds of pre-packaged foods were selected, 548 kinds were using nutrition label, and the labelling rate was 95.8%. 548 kinds of foods were false labeled with the ratio of 14.1% and nutrition claims is not standard rate 38.4%. Initiative labelling rate was 18.6% and drinks had the highest rate (33.3%). Conclusion Since Pre-packaged Food Nutrition Labels General was implemented, the rate of food nutrition labels has greatly improved and the label were more standardized, but there are still many problems. Initiative labelling rate was low in prepackaged food and false labeling may occur.

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LI Jun-liang, TANG Hui-zhou, CHEN Jiao-jiao, WANG Hui-qun. Survey on status of prepackaged food nutrition label in Guiyang city[J].中国食品卫生杂志,2015,27(6):665-669.

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  • Received:September 21,2015
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