Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9600
ISSN: 2155-9600
Pouline Chai Lin Koh
KDU University College, Malaysia
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nutr Food Sci
This study focused on the in-depth interviews of 13 key stakeholders in Malaysia including country policymakers, major food industries, design practitioners and researchers, with the overarching objective to examine and address (a) the views of issues and challenges of nutritional labels among the key stakeholders, and (b) suggestions to uptake the betterment of nutritional labels to assist the use among consumers. The interviews were conducted with semi structured questionnaires; data were transcribed, and further analysis was carried out with thematic approach. Results in this study shows that, the key stakeholders shared similar concern about the consistency, information presentation and design attention given to nutritional labels in Malaysia. Findings highlighted that the design of nutritional labels and the use among consumers are often placed at a less administered and nonessential situation, whilst noting an evident gap between the governance and producer when handling nutritional labels. In order to the nutritional labels in Malaysia moving forward, findings reveal that a better understanding to information design should be coincided in the overall nutritional label design process, and collaborative work among multi key stakeholders is highly vital in this process.