Canada’s new food warning label!

A reader, Doug Williams, alerted me to Canada’s new food warning label.  Even better, he followed it up with a photo.

Here’s what the warning label looks like up close.

Canada based the label on extensive consultation.

For most foods, the warning label is required when sugar, saturated fat, or sodium reach 15% of the Daily Value.  For saturated fat, for example:

There are lots of exceptions.  But the warning label is easy to spot.

The FDA is supposedly working on a warning label.  I can’t wait to see what the MAHA FDA comes up with.

Canada’s is better.  The ones in Latin America are better yet.  Let’s hope.

Resources

• Healthy Eating Strategy
• Front-of-package nutrition labelling backgrounder
• Front-of-package nutrition symbol labelling guide for industry
• Front-of-package labelling consumer research and consultation
• Summary of amendments published in the Canada Gazette, Part II: Nutrition symbols, other labelling provisions, vitamin D and hydrogenated fats or oils
• Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (Nutrition Symbols, Other Labelling Provisions, Vitamin D and Hydrogenated Fats or Oils)
• Marketing Authorization to Permit a Lower Calcium Threshold for Exemptions from the Requirement for Prepackaged Products to Carry a Nutrition Symbol in the Case of Cheese, Yogurt, Kefir and Buttermilk
• Interim policy statements on certain front-of-package nutrition labelling requirements