Nutrient profiling ec Working Document on nutrient profiling

The Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 on Nutrition and Health Claims on Foods that applied from July 2007, necessitates that foods carrying nutrition or health claims must comply with specific nutritional criteria or ‘nutrient profiles’. The aim of setting nutrient profiles is to ensure consumers are not misled with regards to the overall nutritional value of foods bearing these claims, thus enabling consumers to make informed choices that will influence their diet in a way that will be beneficial to their health. The European Commission (EC) has until January 2009 to establish a nutrient profiling system and to set nutrient profiles that will determine which

food items can bear nutrition and health claims. To help them in this process, they sought scientific advice from the European Food Standard Authority (EFSA), which was published earlier in 2008. The EC has issued a ‘Working Document on the Setting of Nutrient Profiles’.

Task 2.The paper sets out two main objectives for setting nutrient profiles:

1. To counter the promotional effects of claims and help customers’ choices.

2. To provide an incentive for product reformulation.

Task 3. Answer the following questions.

1. What does EC stand for?

2. What is meant by nutrient profile?

3. What does the EC have to set up in 2009?

4. Whose advice did the EC seek?

5. What document has the EC published?

6. What is the purpose of the document?

Task 4. Read the article and choose the best phrase from the given below to fill each of the gaps.

A. It was followed;

B. The health lobby group Cash looked;

C. The "All Day Breakfast" variety were the worst offenders;

D. The lowest salt sandwiches;

E. Cash noted;

F. The British Sandwich Association said.

Task 5. Pre-packed sandwiches may contain as much salt as several bags of crisps, a study suggests.

1. _____ at 140 sandwiches on sale and found over 40 % had 2 g or more of salt – or a third of an adult's recommended daily intake.

2. _____, but cheese and ham as well as chicken salad also featured.

3. _____ it had been working hard to reduce salt levels and the study was misleading. Asda's Extra Special Yorkshire Ham and Hawes Wensleydale sandwich topped the list, with nearly 4 g or 65 % of the recommended daily salt intake, according to the

Consumer Action on Salt and Health survey.

4. _____ by Pret a Manger's All Day Breakfast sandwich with 3.54 g of salt and the Tesco's Finest version of the same with 3.5 g.

5. _____ that as a standard bag of Walkers Ready Salted Crisps contains 0.5 g of salt, these sandwiches contain the equivalent of seven bags of crisps.

6. _____ in the survey were Co-op Healthy Living Tuna and Cucumber and Tesco Healthy Living Chicken Salad, with 0.6 g or 10 % of the recommended daily amount.

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Task 1.Read the article below and choose the best word from the given below to fill each gap:

concern, professionals, prior to, in particular, growth, mineral, ageing, brittle, reduced-fat, full-fat, skimmed, ensure.