Work Package 5: Reformulation and Processed Food Monitoring
“What gets measured gets done” - Monitoring and changing the food market for a healthy future
Currently, only a few European countries are able to monitor processed food supply at the brand level. Such a tool, at a country level, enable to monitor food offer, nutritional content and identify best formulation and room for reformulation. Activities aimed at reformulating foods into healthier alternatives are the first crucial step in improving the food supply for children.
This project team aims to share and promote best practices on how to implement a standardized European monitoring system for processed food reformulation.
Benefits to European citizens
Monitoring and benchmarking food products will:
- Provide data to identify best formulations and room for reformulation;
- allow comparison between countries and brands;
- contribute to an increased offer of healthier options of processed foods (by reducing salt, sugar and fat content) available in EU supermarkets;
- provide data to establish, evaluate and adapt nutrition policies.
Expert Area
This work package aims to contribute to a standardized monitoring system at European level to facilitate comparisons and to encourage the improvement of the nutritional quality of the food supply within and between countries. The sustainability of this harmonized monitoring system at the European level will be studied and encouraged.
- D5.1 Temporary guidelines on processed food supply and reformulation monitoring (June 2021)
- D5.2 Final guidelines on processed food supply and reformulation monitoring (September 2022)
- D5.3: Report on reformulation monitoring: monitoring implementation and reformulation impacts (September 2023)
Work Package Leader
Karine Vin
Leader of Work Package 5
Senior Researcher, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (
