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Front-of-package labeling

Front of package labeling systems document screenshot

Front-of-package labeling systems

Resolve to Save Lives
Only one system is proven to improve food choices: Mandatory nutrient warning labels.
screenshot of first page of Nutrients study about food labeling study in Bangladesh

Designing Front-of-Package Labels to Inform Consumers and Encourage Healthier Food Choices in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Study

Lindsay S. Taillie, et al.
New study co-authored by RTSL suggests that warning labels are more effective for helping consumers avoid nutrients of concern like excess salt, sugar, and fat.
screenshot of Frontiers journal article on warning labels for packaged foods

Global overview of government-endorsed nutrition labeling policies of packaged foods: a document review

Ummay Afroza, et al.
New study co-authored by RTSL and our partners in Bangladesh shows which warning labels on packages foods promotes healthy food choices.

FOPWL regulations around the globe

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Reducing Demand for Unhealthy Food: Resources

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Global sodium reduction strategies course

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Designing, planning, and implementing sodium reduction interventions in low- and middle-income countries

Behind the Labels: Big Food’s War on Healthy Food Policies

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Sodium Reduction Framework

Resolve to Save Lives

WHO Sodium Country Score Card

World Health Organization
What's in our food? A guide to implementing effective front of package nutrient labels

What’s in Our Food? A guide to introducing effective front-of-package nutrient labels

Vital Strategies

Research to support the development of front-of-package labeling regulations for food products in the Americas: Methods, tools, and procedures

Pan America Health Organization

Priority actions to advance population sodium reduction

Nicole Ide et al

Front-of-package labeling as a policy tool for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases in the Americas

Pan American Health Organization

Front-of-package labelling: Empowering consumers and promoting healthy diets

University of North Carolina

Building momentum: Lessons on implementing a robust front-of-pack food label

World Cancer Research Fund International

Reducing cardiovascular disease through salt reduction

Resolve to Save Lives
RTSL’s best interventions for saving lives with sodium reduction.
WHO Shake technical package

The SHAKE Technical Package for Salt Reduction

World Health Organization

Annotated bibliography: sodium reduction

Resolve to Save Lives

WHO global report on sodium intake reduction

World Health Organization