US food labelling found lacking
President Obama has made tackling childhood obesity and nutrition a key priority. The FDA’s recent announcement on nutritional labelling demonstrates the administration’s willingness to act in areas where it deems self-regulation to have been ineffective, Ben Cooper writes, and this proactive approach may not be confined to food labelling.
Obama taking food self-regulation to task
2 November 2009
President Obama has made tackling childhood obesity and nutrition a key priority. The FDA’s recent announcement on nutritional labelling demonstrates the administration’s willingness to act in areas where it deems self-regulation to have been ineffective, Ben Cooper writes, and this proactive approach may not be confined to food labelling.
US: Food manufacturers abandon Smart Choices logo
30 October 2009
All eight US food manufacturers participating in the Smart Choices Program labelling scheme have agreed to drop the logo from their products amid claims the label could mislead consumers.
US: Unilever to "phase out" Smart Choices labels
27 October 2009
Food giant Unilever is to "phase out" its use of the Smart Choices Program, the food labelling scheme under fire in the US.
US: Smart Choices Program halted on FDA probe
26 October 2009
The roll-out of food labels designed to help US shoppers eat more healthily has been halted after food safety officials started an investigation on whether nutrition claims within the labels were misleading.
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