A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling

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.

• Demonstrates how to construct nutritional labels by integrating diet, nutrition information, and health
• Questions the norms of current nutritional food packaging labels in an effort to prioritize dietary needs
• Identifies solutions to help standardize the nutritional table process for consumer packaged goods
• Highlights the process of developing general nutritional and front-of-pack labeling through case studies from around the globe

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.