2023 Volume 76 Issue 1 Pages 21-26
The Consumer Affairs Agency has conducted a research project to examine the measures to be taken in relation to the methods of analysis for nutrients in the Food Labeling Standards and related notifications, based on the revision of the Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan in December 2020. The Food Labeling Standards and related notifications have been revised based on the results of that project. Specifically, new methods of analysis were added for lipids, dietary fiber, chromium, selenium and iodine. In addition, the general principles were changed to solve operational problems with the conventional methods. This review reports on the issues and measures to be taken in relation to the Food Labeling Standards and related notifications that were organized in the project, and explains the details of the Food Labeling Standards and related notifications revised in 2022.
