CSPI, the Association of SNAP Nutrition Education Administrators, and the Association of State Public Health Nutritionists filed an updated petition in 2022 calling for mandatory, interpretive ...

The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act (FALCPA) – which took effect Jan. 1, 2006 - defined allergens as crustacean shellfish, eggs, fish, milk, peanuts, soybeans, tree nuts and ...

But it wasn’t until almost 90 years later that the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act made it mandatory for companies to disclose what was really inside the boxes, cans, and bags that lined ...

Congress began requiring standardized nutrition labels on food packages through the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990. But in the 34 years since that first label appeared, ...

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A bill known as the TRUTH in Labeling Act has been sitting before Congress since late 2023. If passed, it would require U.S. food manufacturers to add a second nutrition label to the front of ...

This is what the current nutrition facts label looks like. Note the serving size for this particular product is two-thirds of a cup. So if you have a 1-cup serving, you need to add 50% more to all ...

Congress began requiring standardized nutrition labels on food packages through the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990. But in the 34 years since that first label appeared, ...

In crafting its proposal, FDA would be pulling from labeling authority granted from the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act.

In 1990, Congress passed the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, mandating nutrition labels on all packaged foods to help address growing concerns about rising rates of chronic illnesses linked ...