Food Standards Agency

Sunday 7 September 2008

Safer food better business banner

• advanced search
• tips

AZ-Directory What's New

• Home
• News Centre
• Nutrition
• Safety and Hygiene
• BSE
• Labelling and Packaging
  • Labelling rules
  • Food Contact Materials
  • Packaging
  • Signposting
  • Labelling research
  • Packaging committees
  • Labelling publications
• GM and Novel Foods
• Consultations
• Food Industries
• Enforcement
• Science and Research
• About Us
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland
• Wales
• Cymraeg

• RSS What is RSS?

Technical guidance

This is Issue 2 of the technical guidance for the Agency's front-of-pack nutritional signpost labelling approach.

The technical guidance includes the nutritional criteria that underpin the traffic light colours, advice on signpost design issues, as well as example signpost visuals.

This guidance has been revised and re-issued to include criteria for breakfast cereals and to incorporate a modification to the sugars red (high) criteria, which is intended to help consumers better identify foods that are healthier options, for example those where the sugars content is due to high levels of fruit.

If you are a retailer or manufacturer interested in finding out more about front-of-pack signposts, please contact Kidist Mekonnen who will be happy to provide information on our approach and answer any questions you have about it.

tel: 0207 276 8014
email: kidist.mekonnen@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

Related links

Download pdf  (pdf 192KB) (External) Get Adobe Acrobat reader You may need the free Acrobat Reader to view a pdf

Tell a Friend

Printer friendly

Contact us

Get alerts

Our Sites

Find out what our other sites have to offer

• © Crown copyright

• About us
• How we work
• Help
• Site Map
• Accessibility
• Access Keys
• Complaints Procedure
• Terms and conditions
• Feedback
• Freedom of information
• (External) direct.gov.uk

Change Text Only Settings