A few weeks ago, while walking through a local market, I noticed bright yellow sweets displayed prominently outside a shop. They looked attractive and fresh, exactly the kind of products that would catch a...

Social media often sounds more frightening than it should. Not everyone would be familiar with how risk-based food safety Acts protect consumers. Words like ban and carcinogen become keywords for the reader’s...

At a time, when fake news cleverly mimics facts to create a false narrative, your only trustworthy source is the food label. It is controlled by regulations; facts are verifiable and anything false or...

Food labels provide information so that consumers can make an informed choice before purchase. To effectively communicate, food labels must satisfy these conditions: (1) reduce information overload; secondly...

Nutrition labelling first introduced in 2008 (PFA), only required declaring the “big four” nutrient amounts; energy (kcal), protein, carbohydrate (including quantity of sugar) and fat. Expressing the amount of...