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Food labels

Nutrition Panel Calculator

The Australian New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) has developed a Nutrition Panel Calculator to provide food manufacturers with the ability to readily calculate the average nutrient content of their food products and to prepare a Nutrition Information Panel as required in the Food Standards code. The calculator calculates values for the seven nutrients required in NIP's - � energy, protein, total fat, saturated fats, total carbohydrate, sugars and sodium. The calculator is available on the ANZFA website free-of-charge.

ANZFA Food Labels Poster 2002

The Australian New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) have recently released a new poster �Food labels, what do they mean?� This poster provides comprehensive, yet easy-to-read information about how to read food labels, and also details the changes made to food label standards effective in December 2002. You can download a PDF version of this poster from their site.

HEC on-line module on "Food Labels"

Better Health Channel Fact sheets

- Food labels help you make food choices
- Food 'use by' and 'best before' dates explained

The Healthy Eating Club is the nutrition content provider for the Victorian Government Health website
"Better Health Channel" (BHC) in Australia. The BHC produce Fact Sheets with our help for the general public. They have kindly given us permission to link these articles to our website. The relevant BHC fact sheets are linked under each heading as well as under one heading at the bottom of the "Food & Nutrition Information" index page.