Assessment of nutrient composition and labelling practices

Highlights

The COMMIT Initiative was conducted this assessment in the capital cities of seven Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam) and had four objectives:

1. To assess the nutrient composition of CPCF against the nutrient composition requirements of the adapted WHO Europe NPM for CPCF.
2. To assess the labelling practices of CPCF against the labelling requirements of the adapted WHO Europe NPM for CPCF.
3. To benchmark the number of CPCF that meet both the nutrient composition and labelling requirements of the adapted WHO Europe NPM for CPCF, disaggregated by product category.
4. To assess the micronutrient content of CPCF against Codex Alimentarius Guidelines on formulated complementary foods for older infants and young children (CAC/GL 9-1991).