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A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling delves into the intricate global landscape of nutritional labeling for consumer packaged goods. It addresses the complexity and lack of uniform guidelines that plague food industry professionals in effectively conveying nutritional impacts on dietary choices. Additionally, it presents a global perspective on nutritional and front package labeling, offering solutions for standardizing the nutritional table process. The book includes historical milestones and case studies from countries like the U.S., Switzerland, Colombia, and Chile. It provides practical tools for interpreting front-of-pack labeling and insights into the regulatory landscape and future trends in nutritional labeling.
List of contents
1. Evolution of Nutritional and Front-of-Pack Labeling: Global Historical Milestones
2. Global Health and Nutrition: Figures and Indicators for Responsible Labeling
3. Benefits of Front-of-Pack Labeling of Foods
4. Nutritional Transparency: Strategies to Navigate Legal Regulations and Regulatory Issues
5. From Diversity to Harmonization: Global Perspectives on Nutritional and Front-of-Pack Labeling
6. Labeled Foods, Educated Consumers: Transforming Information into Knowledge
7. Building Healthy Communities: The Impact of Public Policies on Food Environments
8. Practical Tools for Interpreting Nutritional and Front-of-Pack Labeling
9. Building Nutritional Information: Case Studies, The Process of Developing General, Nutritional, and Front-of-Pack Labeling
10. The Impact of Health and Nutrition Claims on Food Labeling
11. Nutritional Roadmap: A Standardized Approach to General and Nutritional Labeling
12. Future Perspectives on General and Nutritional Labeling
About the author
Dr. Ramirez is a nutritionist-Dietitian at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá. She has a Master in Communication from Universidad Autónoma de Occidente. With 40 years of work and consulting experience in product management areas of nutritional, dermatological and endocrine lines; nutritional marketing management, food services management for companies in the pharmaceutical and mass consumption industries in Colombia. From 2016 to 2023, director and professor of the Nutrition and Dietetics Program at the Javeriana Cali University. He focuses his research interests on food innovation and development, culture, nutrition and nutritional marketing. Belonging to the research groups of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali: Health and Quality of Life (SYCV) and Basic and Clinical Health Sciences.Professor Erika Evelia Celis Rozo is a Nutritionist-Dietitian at the National University of Columbia. She specializes in general epidemiology, healthy eating, and nutritional labeling. She has a Master's in Public Health and a Master's in Public Policy from the University of the Andes.
