Health Guide Lights on Food Products in Khorasan Razavi

Vice chancellor of Food and Drug Administration of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences said: “By the end of this year, health guide lights will be installed on all food products in Khorasan Razavi.”

According to WEBDA, in the conference celebrating National Health Week, Dr. Mohammad Reza Saberi added: “The ongoing project of installing health lights of food products is aimed to inform and help consumers to identify nutritional facts in a simple, clear, and understandable way and to improve community health.”

He stated: “The project started in 2015 in Khorasan Razavi and the whole country at the same time, and as Minister of Health emphasized, all food products must be labeled by the end of 2016.”

Dr. Saberi said: “50 percent of the food in Khorasan Razavi have already been labeled with health lights.”

Dr. Saberi stated: “By means of health lights, nutritional value of foods in terms of sugar, fat, salt, trans-fatty acids and proteins are assigned three colors of green, red and yellow, same as traffic lights.”

According to Dr. Saberi, red, yellow and green colors represent large, medium and small proportions of substances such as salt, sugar, protein, fat and trans fatty acids in food products respectively.