Food and health ministers vote to mandate the ratings system after years of urging from peak health bodies
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The Health Star Rating system will be mandatory on all packaged foods in Australia after ministers agreed the voluntary system was not working.
The government-led front-of-pack nutrition label was introduced in 2014 as a simple way to compare the overall nutritional quality of products on the shelf, as recommended by the World Health Organization.