The origin of Guideline Daily Amounts and the Food Standards Agency's guidance on what counts as 'a lot' and 'a little'

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 549-556

  Rayner, Mike ^a   Scarborough, Peter ^a   Williams, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food labelling; Nutrition policy

Indexed keywords

SATURATED FATTY ACID; SODIUM CHANNEL AFFECTING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALORIE; DIETARY INTAKE; FAT CONTENT; FOOD PACKAGING; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

DIETARY FATS; ENERGY INTAKE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD LABELING; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; SUCROSE;

EID: 2942739343     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2003552     Document Type: Article

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