The CGF wants to provide consumers with choices and information that empower them to make informed decisions for a healthy life.
The CGF wants to provide consumers with choices and information that empower them to make informed decisions for a healthy life.
The CGF is guided by these key principles:
The CGF Health & Wellness Resolutions and Commitments are intended to motivate concerted industry-wide adoption of transparent, fact-based labelling that empowers consumers to choose products and use them in a way that contributes to healthier lifestyles.
We began this journey in June 2011 and by 2018 the CGF hopes to see industry-wide implementation of consistent product labelling and consumer information to help consumers make informed choices and usages. As always, these voluntary efforts must also adhere to all relevant local regulatory requirements.
The specific steps to take for CGF member companies to join into the commitment on providing consistent product labelling and consumer information to help consumers make informed choices and usages are:
For the food sector, display eight key nutrients on the back (or side) of product packaging: energy, carbohydrates, total sugars, fibre (except in EU), protein, fat, saturated fats and sodium.
For the food sector, display energy on the front of product packaging*.
For the personal care sector, display product usages on packaging.
*The energy display may be used in conjunction with industry-supported or government endorsed front-of-pack labelling schemes consistent with the CGF’s guiding principles.
Energy could be expressed or combined with other existing Front of Pack labelling systems in various parts of the world – particularly those supported by local governments – that work synergistically with other on-pack information. See our other sources of information for examples.
We recommend that our members track and share their progress towards supporting consumers in becoming more health-aware about their food and product choices. See the CGF recommendations outlined briefly in the Health & Wellness Enablers chapter.
Our CGF member companies have been progressing on product labelling and consumer information, and seeing synergies from the collaboration of retailers and manufacturers. We share examples below.
- strict compliance with official labelling provisions in the countries where we are present;
- information on the most important nutrients with a public health impact on products where space permits;
- simple and accessible front labelling Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA);
- adoption of the highest standards in countries where there is no regulation policy applicable to a certain issue; and
- promotion of physical activity.
- origin of product or service components;
- content, particularly regarding substances that may have a certain environmental or social impact;
- safety instructions on the product or service; and
- disposal of the product and its environmental or social impact.
Our approach is part of our holistic Nutrition Health and Wellness strategy. We have set clear objectives and developed an implementation roadmap to ensure the roll-out of our approach consistently across Markets. We are also designed a monitoring system to track our progress. The current objectives are, by 2016:
A resource developed by our strategic partner FoodDrinkEurope which explains in simple terms the concept behind “Reference Intakes” (formerly known as Guideline Daily Amounts).