Furthermore, while Spoonfed dismisses everything on the front label as «marketing speak,» I can tell you as a lawyer with food regulatory experience that companies often chafe under FDA - required
front label disclosures.
Yet now the dairy industry is getting a hearing on its 2009 citizen's petition (PDF linked here) asking FDA for permission to abandon
those front label disclosures for artificially dairy sweetened products — and not just on flavored milk but also on seventeen other dairy products having nothing to do with schools, including whipping cream, sour cream, nonfat dry mik and more.
Not exact matches
These leading experts all share my serious concern about the dairy petition and so it was with some surprise that I read a new blog post by a respected fellow food blogger, Spoonfed, who seems to downplay the issue on the theory that
front labels mean little and, at any rate, consumers should just focus on back -
label ingredient
disclosures:
First of all, the
front label «reduced calorie» or «reduced sugar»
disclosures have always been prominent and useful tip - offs to purchasers that a product may contain artificial sweeteners or other artificial ingredients that many find questionable.
Food activist Nancy Huehnergarth tweeted this troubling Dairy Reporter item last Friday, which indicates that the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) are asking the Food & Drug Administration for permission to add aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to the flavored milk sold in U.S. schools without certain
front -
label disclosures.
Things are heating up on the genetic engineering
front in the state of Vermont, where an overwhelming 96 percent of Vermonters vehemently support «right to know» legislation that mandates full
disclosure of genetically - modified organisms (GMOs) on food
labels.