Health Star Ratings should be compulsory, Australian health groups say Four leading Australian health groups have called on the new Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley and the Australian government to make...

Health Star Rating website relaunched The troubled Health Star Rating website was relaunched by the Australian Government over the weekend. This is the second iteration of the Health Star Rating website...

CHOICE claims food industry making “push to hide shrinking packs” Consumer group CHOICE has claimed some food companies have “big appetites for reducing the size of products without reducing...

Coke to adopt traffics light labelling in the UK The UK arm of global beverage giant Coca‑Cola has announced it is adopting the UK Government’s voluntary front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme, which...

Food ministers sign off on new star labelling scheme The troubled Health Star Rating system for food labelling has been signed off by food and health ministers from the Australian Federal, State and Territory...

People on a diet are better at reading food labels, a study has found People who attend slimming groups are more likely to read and understand the nutritional information given on food compared with those...

The Cancer Council Queensland has called for food manufacturers to follow Monster's lead on Health Stars The Cancer Council Queensland has urged the State’s food manufacturers to adopt Health Star...

A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL)...

Many of the formats for front-of-pack nutrition labels currently in use on food products globally have little effect on whether consumers are motivated to choose a healthy product, according to a study...

A panel of leading Australian food industry experts has ruled out plain packaging of high calorie foods as a possible way to fight obesity. Plain paper packaging was one of the key topics debated at the...