The first step in understanding food labels is to know what information is required by law. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there are several mandatory components of a food label ...

Food advocacy groups says the EU must overhaul its food rules now or risk leaving consumers, especially low-income families and children, exposed to misleading claims, weak enforcement, and unchecked ...

As both the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and Safe Food Advocacy Europe release reports detailing how the food industry conveys information, calls for change emerge. In September 2022, ...

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The FDA will also work on a front-of-package labeling system. Foods that claim to be "healthy" on their packaging will soon be subject to a new set of labeling guidelines, part of an effort by the U.S ...

University of Guelph provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Guelph provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. “Vegan,” “vegetarian,” “meatless,” ...

An experiment carried out across ten workplace cafeterias found no significant change in the overall number of calories purchased when food and drink labels showed the amount of physical activity ...

Meat and sausages in a UK butcher shop. Credit: Deyan Georgiev / Shutterstock.com The UK government has launched proposals to make food labelling more transparent to “ensure British farmers’ products ...

The European Commission is expected to favour a series of new food labelling recommendations set to pile additional costs onto food and drink makers. A bold list of EU-wide recommendations aims to ...