The FDA May Add a Warning Label to Some of Your Favorite Foods
Sometimes navigating a nutrition label can be tricky for folks experiencing a dietary-related illness or just wanting to be informed about what goes into their bodies. To understand most of them, you need to sift through a lot of jargon — and that takes time. That is why a new federal mandate may pass to ease this package-reading burden.
The FDA wants to place warning labels on food packages to combat obesity and other health conditions
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking to propose the inclusion of front-of-package warning labels that detail the calorie, fat, sugar and salt content of various processed food and drink products.
The FDA wants to put nutrition warnings on the fronts of food packages to reduce obesity, other health conditions
The change is aimed at reducing the prevalence of preventable health conditions like diabetes, heart disease and obesity. A new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows obesity rates among adults are higher than 40% in some states.
FDA to propose new food label warnings to combat obesity
The FDA is considering food labels to help consumers identify products with unhealthy ingredients, but some experts wonder if this is enough to help in the fight of high obesity rates in the U.S.
Your food may soon come with warning labels
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