For more than a century, the U.S. government has tried to bring more transparency to food labels. It started in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act cracked down on mislabeled ingredients and false ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a new front-of-package (FOP) labeling rule aimed at helping consumers make healthier food choices quickly and easily. This “Nutrition Info box,” a ...

Americans are more likely to choose the healthiest food when calories and dietary fiber are included along with nutrients-to-limit on the front of the package and when interpretive language – but not ...

A long-running debate over how packaged foods should be labeled is intensifying in the lead-up to a White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health scheduled for late September. The debate is ...

To help combat the nation’s chronic disease crisis, the FDA has announced a proposal for a rule that would require front-of-package labeling for nutritional information. If finalized, the proposed ...