Sentences with phrase «fat labeling rule»
The FDA's trans fat labeling rule states that food companies only need to mention trans fat IF and ONLY IF their food contains 0.5 grams of trans fat or more per serving.
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The Malaysian Guide to Nutrition Labelling and Claims (as at December 2010) establishes rules on the use of nutrient content claims (ie levels of fat for a low - fat claim) and nutrient comparative claims (eg comparison between an old and new product formulation).
Also bear in mind that labelling items as fat free or low fat comes with advertising and marketing rules.
The rules will permit food processors to make new claims on their labels, such as «low in trans fat» or «low in cholesterol - raising fat.»
If consumers pay attention to these labels and limit their intake of trans fats, FDA estimates that its new rules «will save between $ 900 million and $ 1.8 billion each year in medical costs, lost productivity, and pain and suffering.»
The fact that both of these CLAs have demonstrated health benefits in a host of studies over the past 2 decades has won them an exemption from recent government rules requiring that food labels list concentrations of heart - threatening trans fats (see No Hiding Most Trans Fats).
In early 2006 new Food and Drug Administration rules went into effect requiring food labels to show trans fat content; in September the city of New York proposed severely limiting the use of trans fats in local restaurants.
Kind then petitioned the FDA for a re-evaluation of the term's definition, noting the fat in its bars comes from nuts, and that this same rule would prevent avocados and salmon from being labeled healthy, too.
Anti-doping rules cloud the issues of what is «natural» and what isn't, pharmaceutical - type labeling on herbal remedies and wild claims regarding performance enhancement or fat loss (rightly) turn most consumers into skeptics, and massive price tags on tubs of sugar with trace amounts of «popular» compounds give a warped sense of the cost of high performance.
Something else to keep in mind when avoiding trans fat is that due to some idiotic labeling rules, food companies only need to list trans fat content if the food contains 0.5 grams or more per serving.
Anti-doping rules cloud the issues of what is «natural» and what isn't, pharmaceutical - type labeling on herbal remedies and wild claims regarding performance enhancement or fat loss (rightly) turn most consumers into skeptics, and massive