The
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2016, are set to upend the last 25 years of packaging
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in this month's
headlines ...
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The FDA is
Making a Big Change to Nutrition Labels. And it's Probably a Big
Mistake.
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The
good news is that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised
to make the Nutrition Facts label (pdf) on many packaged foods
significantly more honest. The bad news is that this
well-intentioned fix could seriously backfire.
Read on...
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USDA Secretary
Tom Vilsack to Give Keynote Remarks on Child Nutrition
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On Sept. 1, Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack will give keynote remarks at the Center for
American Progress in Washington, DC. This event is part of a
significant effort by Secretary Vilsack highlighting the success of
the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and its role in fighting childhood
obesity and
hunger.
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Some Brands Are
Labeling Products "GMO-free" Even if They Don't Have
Genes
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After
decades of love affairs with processed food, many Americans are
becoming more and more concerned with what goes into their meals.
But despite there being little to no scientific evidence indicating
that genetically modified organisms are bad for your health, the
number of companies paying to have their food certified as GMO-free
is skyrocketing, whether they need it or not ....
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Judge Stays Gen
Mills Trans Fat Lawsuit, but FDA has Left Firms Exposed to Civil
Litigation, Argue Attorneys
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In a ruling that will
be read with interest by food manufacturers worried about being
sued for using partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), a judge in
California has stayed a PHO-related class action vs General Mills
until the FDA decides whether certain low-level uses should be
permitted.
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Improved
Nutrition Labels [in Canada] Could Still be 5 Years Away
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Health
Canada released its latest proposed changes to
nutritional labels on food packages ... to help shoppers
make sense of the not-so-intuitive information boxes. After
the public consultation period, the agency has "no formal
deadline" to publish final nutrition label guidelines,
and it has proposed that businesses can take up to five years
to implement the changes.
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Intro Offer: Proposed NFP Impact
Analysis
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Changes
include a substantially larger NFP box, different nutrient values,
changing claims eligibility, new serving sizes, and the most
discussed revision: Added Sugar.
Depending
on your label, these changes may have minimal impact, or completely
alter your product's identity.
to
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needs to be reformulated.
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