Obama taking food self-regulation to task
By: Ben Cooper | 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.
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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.
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