The FDA doesn’t play an active role in creating nutrition labels for food. That’s left up to individual companies to test and compile their nutritional facts through a “self policing” policy. Not only does the FDA leave this critical role up to the producers, but it allows a margin of error up to 20% on the calorie counts and other values of packaged foods found on nutrition labels. Furthermore, “errors” in excess of 20% are rarely enforced. Rising concerns about food safety and accurate food labeling has resulted in threatened legislation, but the food industry has once again gotten ahead of the regulatory ball and introduced its own version of “improvement.” The resulting changes are called “Facts Up Front ” and involve moving the label area to a more prominent spot on the front of packaging. Also, larger and clearer label information in included. The core problems remain, however, as there is no corresponding oversight or enforcement improvement from the FDA, and the basic information is still determined by the food producers. academymedical/blog/fda-falls-short-on-enforcing-nutrition-label-errors/
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:38:33 +0000
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