THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to make it easier—for consumers as well as smaller food packagers—to understand
label claims for antioxidant and
high-potency products. The agency recently published guidelines to help
smaller firms comply with these labeling rules, following up on regulations issued in September 2007.…
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THOSE NEW, SMALLER snack
packages, designed to help dieters’
willpower, may actually encourage
greater consumption, according to
European researchers. In a study of
140 undergraduates offered snacks
while watching TV, bag size had no
effect on the munching of a control
group. But when a second group was
primed to think about calories—
including being weighed in front of a
mirror—they were almost twice as
tempted by smaller snack bags and,
when they did munch, ate nearly twice
as much.…
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GRAMS alone
don’t mean
much to consumers
when it
comes to trans fat
labeling, according
to a pair of
University of
Arkansas studies.…
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