Project news and updates

• 'Health claims on food labels: Putting it into words - The Health Claims Unpacked Project' - Royal Society for Public Health (25 March 2021)

• 'Unwrapping Health Claims this festive season' - festive blog on EIT Food website (16 December 2020)

• 'Developing a digital toolkit to enhance the communication of health claims: The Health Claims Unpacked project' - Nutrition Bulletin (11 December 2020)

• 'EU health claims - Putting it into words' - webinar (3 December 2020)

• 'Can we trust the health claims on food labels?' - EIT Food interview with principal investigator Professor Rodney Jones (30 January 2020)

Science of health claims

• 'Consumers view nutrition and health claims differently than regulators' - Science Daily coverage of research from the University of Surrey (28 March 2019)

• 'Consumers and health claims: Top findings (CLYMBOL)' - summary from EUFIC (1 July 2016)

• 'The use of nutrition and health claims and symbols on prepacked foods: From consumers exposure to public health implications' - EuroFIR Food Symposium (6 April 2016)

Consumer pages on health claims

• EFSA page and video on health claims

• 'Putting health claims into words' - British Nutrition Foundation (October 2020)

• 'Looking at nutrition labels' - British Nutrition Foundation

• 'Know Your Labels: Nutrition and Health Claims' - British Nutrition Foundation

• EUFIC page and video on nutrition and health claims (23 January 2017)

Guidance on health claims for industry professionals

• EU register of health claims - European Commission

• Nutrition and health claims: Guidance to compliance with Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 - gov.uk

• UK Nutrition and Health Claims Committee - gov.uk

• Great Britain nutrition and health claims register - gov.uk

• UK Government information on the flexibility of health claims wordings - gov.uk

• ASA - Guidance on health claims from the Committee of Advertising Practice Executive

• Nutrition Labelling Composition and Standards Provision Common Framework command paper - gov.uk (9 October 2020)

• FSA food labelling course - section on nutrition and health claims

News on health claims

• 'REFIT of the EU nutrition and health claims regulation: Outcomes and perspectives' - Foodnavigator.com (6 August 2020)

• 'Will EU nutrition and health claims ever be clear enough?' - Foodnavigator.com (24 March 2020)

Selected Health Claims Unpacked press coverage

UK

• 'The devil is in the detail when it comes to health claims' - New Food (23 November 2020)

• 'Health Claims Unpacked project launches the next phase of research' - F&D Technology (20 November 2020)

• 'New digital platform may improve consumers’ understanding of health claims made on food packaging' - News Medical (19 November 2020)

• 'Supporting food and drink manufacturers and retailers to communicate health benefits: the Health Claims Unpacked project launches the next phase of research' - AlphaGalileo (18 November 2020)

• 'On-pack design and word choice influence consumer trust in health claims, finds Health Claims Unpacked' - NutritionInsight (12 November 2020)

• 'Project aims to increase understanding of health claims on food packaging' - Public Sector Catering (12 Novmber 2020)

• 'EU health claims are failing consumers and manufacturers: "The regulation is not working"' - Foodnavigator.com (11 November 2020)

Germany

• 'EU-Ernährungsstudie bittet Verbraucherinnen um Teilnahme' - LinkedIn (November 2020)

• 'Lebensmittel-Etiketten verstehen - EU-Projekt will Gesundheitsslogans verbessern' - FruchtPortal.de (27 November 2020)

• 'Lebensmittel-Etiketten verstehen - EU-Projekt will Gesundheitsslogans verbessern' - Presseportal (25 November 2020)

• 'EU-Projekt will Gesundheitsslogans verbessern' - Schlau News (19 November 2020)

France

• 'Que diriez-vous d’être acteur de votre santé en participant à une enquête Nutrition ?' - Boosty (January 2021)

• 'Quel bonheur d'être parent ! Enjoy Family vous propose une multitude de conseils d'experts et de bons plans pour toute la famille !' - Enjoy Family (21 January 2021)

Poland

• 'Oświadczenia zdrowotne - z czym to się je?' - portalspozywczy.pl (30 November 2020)

• 'Etykiety produktów trzeba rozumieć' - HandelExtra.pl (26 November 2020)

• 'Oświadczenia zdrowotne nie działają?' - SerwisSpozywczy.pl (25 November 2020)

• 'Oświadczenia zdrowotne nie działają?' - Food Forum (23 November 2020)

• 'Lepsze oświadczenia zdrowotne?' - Agro Industry

Publications

• ​Benelam, B. & Buttriss, J.L. (2017). 'The wider environment and its effect on dietary behaviour'. In J.L. Buttriss, A.A. Welch, J.M. Kearney & S.A. Lanham-New (eds.), Public Health Nutrition (2nd ed.), Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 339-356.

• Benelam, B. & Stanner, S. (2015). 'Development of a methodology to assess the nutrient profile of popular UK meals'. Nutrition Bulletin 40 (4): 315-25.

• ​Benelam, B. & Wiseman, M. (2019). 'Size matters: Developing portion size guidance for consumers'. Nutrition Bulletin 44 (1): 4-6.

• ​Bimbo, F., Bonanno, A., Nocella, G., Viscecchia, R., Nardone, G., Devitiis, B. & Carlucci, D. (2017). 'Consumers’ acceptance and preferences for nutrition-modified and functional dairy products: A systematic review'. Appetite 113: 141-154.

• ​​Black, A. (2017). 'Icons as carriers of information'. In A. Black, L. Luna, O. Lund & S. Walker Information design: Research and practice, Routledge, pp. 315–329.

• Black, A. & Rayner, M. (1991). Just Read the Label: Understanding Nutrition Information in Numeric, Verbal and Graphic Formats, London: HMSO

• Buttriss, J.L. & Benelam, B. (2010). 'Nutrition and health claims: The role of food composition data'. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 64: S8–S13.

• De Devitiis, B., Carlucci, D., Nocella, G., Viscecchia, R., Bimbo, F. & Nardone, G. (2018). 'Insights for the development of a functional fish product: Drivers and barriers, acceptance, and communication of health benefits'. Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology 27 (4): 430-445.

• Jones, R. (2016). 'Suicide candy: Tracing the discourse itineraries of food risk'. In C. Candlin and J. Chrichton (eds.) Communicating Risk, London: Palgrave, pp.340-359.

• Jaworska, S. & Nanda, A. (2018). 'Doing well by talking good? A topic modelling-assisted discourse study of corporate social responsibility'. Applied Linguistics 39 (3): 373-399.

• Jaworska, S. (2018). 'Corporate discourse'. In A. de Fina & A. Georgakopoulou-Nunes (eds.), Handbook of Discourse Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Jones, R. (2015). 'Discourse and health communication'. In H. Hamilton, D. Tannen, and D. Schiffrin (eds.), Handbook of Discourse Analysis (3rd edition), London: Wiley, pp.841-857.

• Jones, R. (2014). 'Unwriting food labels: Discursive challenges in the regulation of package claims'. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 28 (4): 1-32.

• Jones, R. (2014). 'The multimodal dimension of claims in food packaging'. Multimodal Communication 3 (1): 1-10.

• Jones, R. (2013). Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective. London: Routledge.

• Jones, R. (2011). 'Punk labeling: The redaction of health claims as mediated action'. Paper presented at the Thammasat International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, September 23.

• Jones, R., Bhatia, V.K., Bhatia, A. & Vyas-Ngarkar, R. (2011). 'Nutritional labeling as social interaction'. Paper presented at the 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester, U.K., July 3-8.

• Jones, R., Bhatia, V.K., Bhatia, A. & Vyas-Ngarkar, R. (2011) 'The definition of "zero": The negotiation of professional practices and pragmatic expectations in the regulation of food labeling'. Paper presented at the Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP) Conference, Cardiff, U.K., June 23-24.

• Liang, H. & Baldwin T. (2015). 'A probabilistic rating auto-encoder for personalized recommender systems'. CIKM 2015: 1863-1866.

• Lockyer, S., Ryder, C., Jaworska, S., Benelam, B. & Jones, R. (2020). 'Developing a digital toolkit to enhance the communication of health claims: The Health Claims Unpacked project'. Nutrition Bulletin, 45 (4): 432-443.

• Lockyer, S., & Rowland, I. (2014). 'Authorised EU health claims for polyphenols in olive oil'. In M.J. Sadler (ed.), Foods, Nutrients and Food Ingredients with Authorised EU Health Claims, Woodhead Publishing, pp. 212-228.

• Lockyer, S., Spiro, A., & Stanner, S. (2016). 'Dietary fibre and the prevention of chronic disease: Should health professionals be doing more to raise awareness?'. Nutrition Bulletin 41 (3): 214-231.

• Moys, J-L. (2014). 'Typographic layout and first impressions – Testing how changes in text layout influence readers' judgments of documents'. Visible Language 48 (1): 40–67.

• Müller, P. & Pöchhacker, N. (2019). 'Algorithmic risk assessment als Medium des Rechts'.  Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie Special Issue 1. Available here.

• Müller, P. & Passoth, J-H. (2018). 'Engineering collaborative social science toolkits: STS methods and concepts as devices for interdisciplinary diplomacy'. In: A. Karafillidis & R. Weidner (eds.), Developing Support Technologies, Cham: Springer International, pp. 137-148.

• Nocella, G. & Kennedy, O. (2012). 'Food health claims – What consumers understand'. Food Policy 37 (5): 571-580.

• Passoth, J-H. (2020). 'Music, Recommender Systems and the Techno-Politics of Platforms, Data, and Algorithms'. In S. Dickel, S. Maasen & C. Schneider (eds.), TechnoScienceSociety: Technological Reconfigurations of Science and Society (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 30), Dordrecht: Springer.

• Viscecchia, R., Nocella, G., de Devitiis, B., Bimbo, F., Carlucci, D., Seccia, A. & Nardone, G. (2019). 'Consumers' trade-off between nutrition and health claims under Regulation 1924/​2006: Insights from a choice experiment analysis'. Nutrients 11 (12): 2881.

• Zucco, C., Liang, H., di Fatta, G. & Cannataro, M. (2018). 'Explainable sentiment analysis with applications in medicine'. BIBM 2018: 1740-1747.