A New Year’s Resolution for the Food Industry – Honest Nutrition Labeling

December 31st, 2009 admin

Just as the year is ending, the tireless consumer advocacy group CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) has sent a 158 page report to the FDA, entitled Food Labeling Chaos – the case for reform [ download PDF ]. In it, the organization claims that nutrition labeling today is insufficient, and that existing regulations are too lax to deal with the marketing brainpower of the food industry. If you have a nutrition label addiction like we do, this report is awesome. The authors break the issues down into 3 areas: Improving the Nutrition Facts Panel Improving ingredient labels Stopping false and misleading health-related claims They …


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