Prepackaged food labeling: Strengthening the policy to protect consumers

• Main Author: Black, Dominique Deborah D.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Food—Labeling—Law and legislation; Consumer protection—Philippines; Food and Drug Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6645; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/12905/viewcontent/CDTG004886_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

A cursory inspection of supermarkets, groceries and sari-sari stores would reveal that a majority of prepackaged food for sale lack nutritional information. There are prepackaged food that have information about their ingredients but not the nutritional panel itself that explains the percentages of...