It may have actually become law back in 2010 with the passage of Obamacare (The Affordable Care Act), but was never legally enforced – until now. Menu labeling enforcement becomes effective on Monday, May 7. The enforcement trigger was set to be effective one year ago, when the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) delayed it…
Read More »The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revised and updated its definition of healthy as relates the nutritional contents of packaged foods. In a guidance issued last week, the agency seeks to first reconcile the parameters of “healthy” with its own new Nutrition Facts Panel rule that was adopted in May. The new definition…
Read More »That’s not quite what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is saying currently about added sugars in packaged foods. The FDA has proposed including a per cent daily value notation for added sugars on the Nutrition Facts Panel of packaged foods. The per cent daily value notation is a statement on packaged food that suggests…
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