ANOR (Codex): Cameroon nutrition label
ANOR (Codex), the Cameroonian nutrition label under ANOR - Étiquetage des denrées alimentaires préemballées (Codex-aligné), 7 mandatory nutrients, per 100 g or 100 ml and per serving, both columns required, French and English on pack. Generate a compliant label free.
Reviewed against ANOR - Étiquetage des denrées alimentaires préemballées (Codex-aligné) · Page updated October 25, 2026
Nutrition labelling requirements in Cameroon
Packaged food sold in Cameroon must carry a nutrition declaration under ANOR - Étiquetage des denrées alimentaires préemballées (Codex-aligné). This page covers the Cameroon - ANOR (Codex) format: Bilingual French/English per Agence des Normes. A compliant Cameroonian nutrition label declares 7 mandatory nutrients: energy (énergie), protein (protéines), fat (matières grasses), of which saturates (dont saturées), carbohydrate (glucides), of which sugars (dont sucres) and sodium. Values are declared per 100 g or 100 ml and per serving, both columns required, with energy in both kJ and kcal, and sodium rather than salt. The panel is headed "Information nutritionnelle / Nutrition Information". French and English must both appear on pack. There is no mandatory front-of-pack warning scheme. NFL builds a print-ready Cameroonian nutrition label from your recipe, applying the rounding rules and reference intakes for Cameroon automatically, and exports it as PDF, PNG, SVG, JPG or EPS.
Official regulation
Key facts
Cameroon food labelling requirements for prepackaged foods
Food labelling requirements in Cameroon are compulsory for both imported and locally produced food, according to the Government's Import/Export Procedures Guide. The national general standard is NC 04:2019, General Standard for the Labelling of Pre-Packaged Foods in Cameroon, published by the Standards and Quality Agency (ANOR).
Décret n° 2005/1928/PM on prepackaged products, which is in force, makes these mandatory on the principal display area: the product name, net contents, and the name and precise address of the manufacturer, importer, packer or responsible distributor. Net contents must be legible and stand out from other text.
An expiry date is mandatory on perishable foods, and labels that could mislead about a product's identity or quantity are prohibited.
Source: ANOR, NC 04:2019 General Standard for the Labelling of Pre-Packaged Foods, and Décret n° 2005/1928/PM.
Cameroon food label language requirements
Cameroon is officially bilingual, and its labelling rules reflect that. The Import/Export Procedures Guide makes the manufacturer's name, manufacturing date and national conformity mark mandatory in both French and English for covered food products.
ANOR publishes its standards with both French and English titles. For some specialised foods, such as breast-milk substitutes, the guide refers to labelling in English and/or French.
Cameroon imported food labelling and origin information
Imported food follows the same compulsory labelling framework as local food. Foreign foods are prohibited if they do not show where they were made or the country of origin, together with a visible statement that the product is imported.
Country-of-origin marking is mandatory on boxes, crates and packaging. Products subject to conformity assessment can be checked against mandatory standards through Cameroon's conformity control system, in which ANOR takes part.
The Décret 2005/1928/PM particulars (name, net contents and responsible business details) apply equally to imported prepackaged goods.
Cameroon nutrition label requirements
ANOR's catalogue lists NC 195:2026, REV 3, Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling, as the current national nutrition labelling standard. The public catalogue entry does not say that a full nutrition panel is mandatory on every prepackaged food.
The standard follows the Codex Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling, under which a nutrient declaration is mandatory when a nutrition claim is made, covering energy and specified nutrients plus any claimed nutrient. Product-specific Cameroonian rules may make nutrition information mandatory for particular foods.
Source: ANOR, NC 195:2026 REV 3 Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling.
Sources
Primary documents this page was written from, checked 2026-10-04.
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