The importance of labeling and certification: ensuring quality and transparency
Issued Date
2025-01-01
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2-s2.0-105009316078
Journal Title
Unleashing the Power of Functional Foods and Novel Bioactives
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449
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465
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SCOPUS
Bibliographic Citation
Unleashing the Power of Functional Foods and Novel Bioactives (2025) , 449-465
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Gupta M.K., Balodi V., Tripathi A.D., Rizwana, Agarwal A., Nirmal N.P. The importance of labeling and certification: ensuring quality and transparency. Unleashing the Power of Functional Foods and Novel Bioactives (2025) , 449-465. 465. doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-28862-3.00022-4 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/111125
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The importance of labeling and certification: ensuring quality and transparency
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Abstract
As one of the fastest growing food markets in the world, it has become paramount to uphold the quality of labeling functional foods accurately and clearly. The chapter examines how the industry is confronted with labeling practices at global and regional levels, the regulatory conditions from both Indian and international perspectives, the conformance of labeling regulations, effective communication through labeling to consumers and the concern of mislabeling, along with third-party certification processes to give assurance, confidence, and to promote transparency. Educating consumers to read nutritional or ingredient panels and use the information to guide buying decisions is equally important, as labeling is an option for whether products are sold without a prescription. The chapter provides case studies of the science of labeling, certification, and regulatory contexts that consider new opportunities around labeling to further establish consumer confidence.