Restricting promotion of food and drink high in fat, sugar or salt: consultation analysis - SG response

Footnotes

1 Food(s) in this document refers to food and drink.

2 'Prepacked food' means any single item for presentation as such to the final consumer and to mass caterers, consisting of a food and the packaging into which it was put before being offered for sale, whether such packaging encloses the food completely or only partially, but in any event in such a way that the contents cannot be altered without opening or changing the packaging. ‘Prepacked food’ does not cover foods packed on the sales premises at the consumer’s request or prepacked for direct sale.

3 The nutrient profiling model is a tool used to differentiate foods on the basis of their nutritional composition. Nutrient profiling uses a scoring system which balances the contribution made by beneficial nutrients that are particularly important in diets with components in the foods that the population should eat less of. The overall score indicates whether that food (or drink) is HFSS – or not. Foods which score 4 or higher, and drinks which score 1 or higher under this model are classed as HFSS