1 Draft amendment on partial articles of " Regulations on 
Nutrition Labeling for Prepackaged Food Products  
1. This regulation is established under the provisions of Item 3 of Article 
22 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (hereinafter referred 
to as “this Act”).  
2. The terms used in this regulation are defined as follows:  
2.1 Trans fats (fatty acids): all the geometrical isomers of 
monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids having 
non-conjugated carbon -carbon double bonds in the trans 
configurat ion. 
2.2  Carbohydrates: namely saccharides; the sum of carbohydrates.  
2.3  Sugars: the sum of all free mono and disaccharides.  
2.4  Dietary fibers: lignin and edible carbohydrate polymers with three 
or more monomeric units, which are not hydrolysed or abs orbed 
by the endogenous enzymes in the small intestine of humans.  
2.5  Nutrition claims:  any representation which states, suggests or 
implies that a food product has or does not have  particular calorie 
or nutrition properties . 
3. The nutrition labeling for  a prepackaged food on the market shall 
provide the following information  from top to bottom in tabular form  
orderly shown at a conspicuous place of the outer package or container 
of the product . 
3.1 Title of the “Nutrition Facts ”. 
3.2 ○ grams (or milliliters) pe r one serving (or per serving) and the 
number of servings contained in each package of the product . 
3.3 “Per serving  (or per one serving) ”, “per 100 grams  (or milliliters , 
tablets, capsules )” or “per serving  (or per one serving) ”, “daily 
percentage reference v alue” . 
3.4 Contents of calories . 
3.5 Contents of protein . 
3.6 Contents of fats, saturated fat s (or saturated  fatty acids) , and trans  2 fats (or trans  fatty acids) . 
3.7 Contents of carbohydrate s and sugar.  
3.8 Contents of sodium . 
3.9 Conform ed to the definition of nutrition claim  of Article 2 . 
Contents of other nutrients declared in the “ Regulations on 
Nutrition Claim for Prepackaged Food Products” . Contents of 
other nutrients labeled voluntarily by the manufacturer.  
Each or total d ietary  fiber, each sugar, sugar alcohol labeled 
voluntarily by the manufacturer can be labeled behind carbohydrates 
item, and after sugar item. Cholesterol , other fatty acid s can be labeled 
behind fat item, and after trans  fats (fatty acids) item. Amino acids can 
be labeled behind protein item.  
If the verti cal form can’t be fully presented, it can be labeled in 
horizontal continuous form.  
If multiple prepackaged food or tastes are commonly used in the 
same nutrient labeling , it can be combined . 
Nutrition labeling on surface areas smaller than 100 cm2 can be labeled 
those nutrition information  sequentially  in horizontal table  form.  
6. Measure units for prepackaged food  nutrition label ing shall be labelled 
in Chinese or using the metric system or their common symbols  and 
conform to the following regulations : 
(1) The unit of "per serving" in the food nutrition label ing, solid 
(semi -solid) foods shall be expressed in grams ; liquid foods shall 
be expressed in milliliters  (mL or ml) ; tablets and capsules 
(excluding candy foods) shall be expressed in grams, tablets, or 
capsules.  
(2) Caloric value is expressed in kilocalories  (Kcal  or kcal ). 
(3) Protein s, fats (fatty acid s), saturated fat s (fatty acids) , and trans fat s  3 (fatty acids) , unsaturated fats ( fatty acid s), carbohydrate s, sugar s, 
dietary fiber s, and sugar alcohol s are expr essed in grams  (g). 
(4) Sodium  and cholesterol s are expressed in milligrams  (mg) . 
(5)  Amino acids  are expressed in grams (g) or milligrams (mg)  
(6)  Vitamin s and mineral s names and  units shall  refer to Appendix 1. 
(7)  Other nutritional values are expressed u sing the metric system or 
their common symbols . 
For product s that using “per serving ” and” 100 grams (or 
milliliters) “for the one  nutrition labeling  in accordance with 
Subparagraphs 1  of Paragraphs  1 of Article 4 , the unit of “per serving ” 
shall be consis tent with the unit  of ”100 grams (or milliliters) ”. 
For product s that require reconstitution with water for 
consumption products, may be labelled of units in accordance with the 
requirements for solids (semi -solid) before rehydration or liquids after 
rehyd ration mentioned in Subparagraphs 1 of the preceding paragraph.  
However, if products with nutrition claims, the measurement standard 
unit adopted for the nutrition claim of the products shall be the basis for 
the application of this regulation.  The re -hydration method shall be 
stated clearly  shown at the outer package . 
8.The nutrient contents of energy, protein, fats, carbohydrate, sodium, 
saturated fats (fatty acids), trans fats (fatty acids) and sugars may be 
labeled as "0" if it meets the criteria in App endix 2; but the nutrient 
actual contents of subcategories nutrient under protein, fat, or 
carbohydrate shall not be labeled as "0", and the protein, fat or 
carbohydrate also shall not be labeled as "0". 
9. Data formatting of prepackaged food  nutrition lab eling  units shall 
conform to the following regulations :  4 (1) Each quantity , serving number , daily percentage reference value , 
shall be labeled using whole integers or integers with one decimal 
point.  Per serving of food products in the form of tablets and 
capsules (excluding candy foods) expressed tablets or capsules units, 
shall be labeled using whole integers.  
(2) The serving size  (weight or capacity) can be labeled using integers 
with two decimal points when it is too small to present the real 
value  if labeled using integers with one decimal points .  
(3) When an non assembled prepackaged product with varied weight or 
its serving  number is not divisible, the serving number can be 
labeled as “ This package contains (about) ○ serving(s) ” after 
data formatting to whole integers.  
(4) Caloric , protein, amino acid, fat, fatty acid,  cholesterol,  
carbohydrate,  sugar,  sodium, dietary fiber,  and other  voluntar y 
nutrients labeled using the principle of whole integers or integers 
with one decimal point . 
(5) Label s for vitamins and minerals shall not exceed three significant 
figures.  
(6) Data  formatting  shall refer to t he Chinese National Standard 
CNS2925 “Practice s for Designating Significant Places in 
Specific Limiting Values”  or “Roun d half up ” method . 
  5 Appendix  2 Conditions for “0” labeling  of Caloric and Nutrients  Value  
Annotation  1: when Infant formula and Follow -up infant Formula using 100 grams (or  
kilocalories ) and 100 milliliters for nutrition labeling, the calorie,  the 
content of  protein, fat, carbohydrate, sodium, saturated fat, trans fat, and 
sugars may be labeled as "0" if they meet the criteria in Appendix  2. 
Annotation 2: Conditions for “0” labeling of caloric and nutrients value do not apply to 
the range of allowable error for nutrition labeling values of Article 10.  
 Items  Per serving and 100 g of solid (or 100 ml of liquid ) 
Caloric Value  Contained in this food product do not exceed 4 
Kcal, and the content of carbohydrates, suga rs, 
proteins, fats, trans fats, and saturated fats all meet 
its conditions for “0” labeling .  
Protein  
Contained in this food product do not exceed 0.5 g  Fat 
Carbohydrate  
Sodium  Contained in this food product do not exceed 5 mg 
Saturated  fats Contain ed in this food product do not exceed 0.1 g  
Trans  fats  Total fat content  in this food product  does not 
exceed 1.0 g;  
or 
Trans fat content in this food product does not 
exceed 0.3 g  
Sugar  Contained in this food product do not exceed 0.5 g