{"id":44,"date":"2026-08-21T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/our-work\/front-of-pack-warning-labels\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:05:10","slug":"front-of-pack-warning-labels","status":"publish","type":"cefroht_file","link":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/?cefroht_file=front-of-pack-warning-labels","title":{"rendered":"Front of Pack Warning Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda has no rule requiring a manufacturer to tell you, on the front of the pack, that a product is high in sugar, salt or saturated fat. The information exists. It sits on the back, in a table, in a font size that assumes good light and good eyesight.<\/p>\n<p>A front of pack warning label changes that. Chile introduced them in 2016 and purchases of labelled products fell sharply within eighteen months. The design is deliberately plain, because plain is what works.<\/p>\n<p>CEFROHT convenes the Uganda National CSO Coalition on Front of Pack Warning Labels. Our part is the legal and evidence work: what the regulation has to say to survive challenge, which body has the power to issue it, and what the Nutrient Profile Model has to contain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda has no rule requiring a manufacturer to tell you, on the front of the pack, that a product is high in sugar, salt or saturated fat. The information exists. It sits on the back, in a table, in a font size that assumes good light and good eyesight. A front of pack warning label [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":10,"template":"","cefroht_theme":[16],"class_list":["post-44","cefroht_file","type-cefroht_file","status-publish","hentry","cefroht_theme-healthy-diets-ncds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/cefroht_file"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cefroht_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcefroht_theme&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}