public health regulations food nutritional labelling 5773 - 2013 4 pages in hebrew . draft amendment to em public health regulations food nutritional labelling em announced by israel ministry of health. the major change introduced in this draft amendment is the addition of paragraph 5a dealing with requirements for em front of pack labelling em em fop em. in addition to israels mandatory nutritional labelling requirements appearing in various regulations and standards the israel ministry of health has decided to add a em front of pack label em for the following reasons to encourage the food industry to re-formulate and improve food products to provide customers with nutritional values of consumed food to use a simple and clear labelling system to emphasize key ingredients and to make them accessible to encourage customers to decrease consumption of saturated fats trans fatty-acids sugars sodium and redundant calories and to provide consumers with information to hel them to sho wisely. the suggested labelling requirements will focus on 4 major nutritional ingredients that will be marked on the front of the food package energy in calories sugar in grams fat in grams and sodium in milligrams . these ingredients should be marked in the above mentioned order and should be designed into a specific em symbol em as shown in the amendments third annex. the size of letters and figures in the em symbol em should not be smaller than 1 3 the size of letters of the customary foods name and in any case will not be smaller than the foods name or alternatively the area of the em front of pack label em as shown in the amendments third annex will not be smaller than 20 of the area of the front of the pack including keeping the required ratio between the letters and figures mentioned above. in alcoholic drinks only the energy need be shown in a specific em symbol em as appears in the amendments fourth annex. the em symbol em is an additional requirement and it does not cancel or replace the requirement to comply with regulations and standards for food or for nutritional labelling. the following foods are exempt from these suggested labelling requirements foods that are exempt from the requirements of nutritional labelling under the regulations nutritional supplements as defined in israel public health regulations food nutritional supplements 5767 - 1997 food preparations for babies and infants and medicinal foods defined in the israel national health insurance law 5764 - 1994 . in the first stage from six months after publication in the israel official gazette until the entry into force of this amendment manufacturers and importers are recommended to make arrangements for implementing the new requirements and can voluntarily mark their products with the fop label symbol as specifically directed in the new requirements. this amendment should enter into force and become mandatory 3 years after publication in the israel official gazette.