Friendly” labels on the packaging are becoming more common in U.S. supermarkets as a growing number of Americans try obesity ...

You want your patients to eat healthier. But American food labels don’t make that easy. A few diet and nutrition specialists offer tips for teaching your patients about food labels — including updated ...

The food pyramid is getting turned upside down, with protein and dairy gaining more prominence in the suggested American diet ...

The consumer champion is now calling on the government to introduce a mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme. It ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Lead and other toxic heavy metals have been found in dangerously elevated amounts in some commercial baby foods sold in the United States, yet parents have had no way to know if ...

There’s a good chance that you or someone you know has trashed perfectly good food over confusion about date labels. Now, the US government is looking for a fix. A group of four federal agencies, ...

Roughly nine years ago, while serving as Vice President for Food Safety at the world’s largest food retailer, I surveyed how many different date labels were used by food producers to convey that food ...

Food manufacturers and a host of trade groups are pushing for a national solution to food labeling as multiple states move toward requiring warning labels and fuller disclosure of ingredients. A ...

As the FDA mulls interpretive food warning labels, a Georgetown University study shows these schemes have been powerless to halt obesity trends. In an attempt to tackle stubbornly high adult obesity ...

Date labels. Expiration dates. Best-by dates. Whatever you call them, at some point, you’ve probably squinted at those tiny dot-matrix-printed numbers and wondered: “Does this mean my cheese might ...