The 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act requires disclosure of nutrient composition information on almost all packaged food and beverage products sold to household consumers. The Nutrition Facts ...
Seducing claims such as 'natural' and 'low fat' lead many of us to overestimate how healthy a food is. It can also discourage us from reading the nutritional details on the back label. Organic ...
To that end, the federally mandated nutritional information on food labels can help with food choices. But what those labels don’t say is whether the product is an ultra-processed food.
The absence of accessible food labeling has tangible consequences for public health, said Julia Sharib, first author on the study and manager of research and communications for the Food is ...
MANILA, Philippines — A network of civil society groups has called on policymakers and legislators to take the lead in coming up with a policy for food warning labels to help reduce the ...
In order to decrease the consumption of ultra-processed food and to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs), health organizations and experts called on the national government on Wednesday to ...
The WHO said there was not enough evidence to determine the best label system. The International Food and Beverage Alliance, whose members include The Coca Cola Company and Mondelez International ...