SOUTH KOREA RELEASES NEW NUTRITION LABELLING GUIDELINES
January 1st, 2020
South Korea’s ministry of food and drug safety (MFDS) has released new guidelines designed to enable food companies selling into the country to more easily comply with national nutrition labelling regulations. The guidelines include a 10-step code of practice, a decision tree pictorial as well as a Q&A tutorial.
This partly interactive advice is designed to provide increased clarity regarding some difficult decisions regarding the categorisation of food products. For instance, hard confectionery is a category that requires labelling under the Food and ...
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