Keep in mind, too, that food labeling is required on almost all prepared foods.
The founder of PROP 37, a Grandmother from Chico, is joined by thousands of Californian citizens fighting for honesty and transparency in our food labeling.
While the cake, the largest ever gluten-free cake, made a statement of its own, the real statement was the need for gluten-free food labeling laws.
Two of the biggest supermarkets in the U.K., Tesco and Wm Morrison Supermarkets , have refused to adopt a government-proposed food labeling system which uses a "traffic light" design to indicate nutritional content.
The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004, which legislated the requirement for food allergy labeling guidelines, also required the FDA to implement rules for voluntary gluten-free labeling guidelines by August 2008.
Referring to the horsemeat controversy, British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted: "this is completely unacceptable - this isn't about food safety but about proper food labeling (and) confidence in retailers, " according to his press office's Twitter account.
European Union officials were meeting Monday to discuss tougher food labeling rules after the discovery of horse meat in a range of frozen supermarket meals such as burgers and lasagna that were supposed to contain beef or pork.
Dixon-Woods agrees that better food labeling, more education, and stricter regulation is necessary to reduce misunderstanding and negative attitudes about nut allergies especially in the United States, where peanut-based products are ubiquitous and the word allergy is frequently used to describe non-life-threatening conditions such as hay fever.
Kraft Foods Global et. al actually came about that way, but a recent decision in the suit provides us another opportunity to opine about the proliferation of food labeling lawsuits and the preferred venue for these claims: The Food Court (aka the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California).
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Following long-standing precedents in food regulation, the FDA requires special labeling only when a new food raises questions of safety, nutrition, or proper usage.
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So we're working to provide better labeling for our food and encourage our pediatricians to screen kids for obesity during well-child visits, but then to write a prescription for families when they identify a problem with a step-by-step sort of process for what they can actually do.
Market share for the Cox-2 inhibitors, Celebrex and Bextra, has plummeted since safety concerns for such drugs were raised by the withdrawal of Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx, although pending new labeling from the Food and Drug Administration may allow sales of those drugs to take off again.
The next skirmish is over the labeling of naughty fats on food packages.
It is also why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not require blanket labeling of GE foods.
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But it's no surprise that a new labeling program underwritten by 14 major food companies--including Kellogg, Kraft and Unilever--says otherwise.
The 27-nation bloc must agree on binding origin disclosures for food product ingredients, starting with a better labeling of meat products, German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said.
The labeling approved for Effient by the Food and Drug Administration says not to use it in patients with prior strokes, a warning that is not present for Plavix.
Lukas Linne said the agency is monitoring the retailers' withdrawal of these items in accordance with Swedish labeling laws, which stipulate that packaged food can only contain what is marked on the label.
In another federal case that approached the issue from a different angle, several food industry associations and firms challenged a Vermont statute that required labeling to identify milk from cows treated with bST.
The report and campaign aim to empower citizens and retailers with the economic, labeling and consumer insight data necessary to make more informed food choices, ultimately shifting antibiotic use through purchasing power.
The food industry needs to get out in front on questions about its credibility and labeling transparency.
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King got U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 2003 for pediatric doses of AtroPen and new labeling and packaging for consumers, as opposed to then-existing military labels.
New guidelines by the Food and Drug Administration aim to protect consumers from skin cancer through greater testing and clearer labeling on sun-protection products, including cosmetics with sunscreen.
Writing a new menu labeling law "has gotten extremely thorny, " says the head of the Food and Drug Administration, as the agency tries to figure out who should be covered by it.
The Constitution also protects the right to sell non-genetically engineered foods and to advertise that fact on product labels, and over just the last decade, more than 7, 000 new food and beverage products have been introduced in the United States with explicit non-GE labeling, joining thousands of others that have been on the market since the early 1990s.
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Standardized DNA checks with meat suppliers and more stringent labeling rules will add costs that producers will most likely hand down to consumers, making food more expensive.
If energy-drink makers are found to have violated certain New York state laws regulating food and drugs, they could be forced to pay civil fines and penalties, and to change their labeling and marketing.
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