Nutrition labelling - the US

Question marks hang over US food labelling scheme 14 Nov 2008

In a fresh bid to show they're serious about rising obesity, US food manufacturers have joined forces to launch the Smart Choices Program, an industry-wide initiative to promote healthy eating through product labelling. The move has been broadly welcomed although the jury is out on which labels will be the most effective tool in getting the US healthy. Dean Best reports.

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US: Food giants sign up to nutrition labels 27 Oct 2008

US food manufacturers including ConAgra Foods and General Mills are introducing front-of-pack labelling in a bid to give consumers more nutritional information about what they eat.

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UPDATE - US: CSPI cools obesity "plateau" claims 29 May 2008

Child obesity in the US is still “unbelievably high”, a key consumer watchdog said today (29 May) after a government study claimed rates had reached a plateau.

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Health's reign over US innovation to continue 11 Mar 2008

Innovation is critical for all in the food industry but developing, making and then selling any new product is fraught with pitfalls - only a small percentage make it from the drawing board to supermarket shelf. Analysts IRI has issued its list of the top ten best-selling food and beverage products in the US last year. IRI’s Sheila McCusker talked to Dean Best about the ingredients a brand needed to succeed in 2007 – and gave the analysts’ forecasts for NPD in 2008.

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