What leads people to make better food choices? Is it price, availability, health attributes of the food or something else? This is the million-dollar question. The most common statement I hear from my ...
For more than a century, the U.S. government has tried to bring more transparency to food labels. It started in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act cracked down on mislabeled ingredients and false ...
The idea of requiring nutrition labels on the front of food packages to disclose sugar and fat content is getting increased attention ahead of the first White House conference in more than half a ...
The Food and Drug Administration wants to change how packaged food is sold in the U.S. In the waning days of the Biden administration, the agency has proposed requiring a new label on the front of ...
Industry expected to push back in favor of voluntary labeling A broad coalition of 28 leading consumer, public health, and nutrition organizations, alongside 12 academic researchers, has called on the ...
Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. A new government proposal to display ...
The United States is in the middle of an obesity epidemic with no end in sight, and the Food and Drug Administration, with a long history of failing to improve the country’s health, is suggesting yet ...
SEATTLE — Which labels help you make healthy choices and which are just hype? “Some food labels are regulated by the FDA, but others aren’t and they may not mean what you think they do,” explained ...
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration proposed new rules Tuesday that would require most packaged foods to display simplified nutrition information on the front of packages in addition to the ...
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