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Article: Journal of Pediatrics report finds that dairy labels are misleading.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Food & Drink Weekly
- Article date:
- July 14, 2003
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A report in the Journal of Pediatrics confirms long-held suspicions that misleading labeling on dairy products and related marketing practices are driving consumers away from purchasing milk for their children and toward sweetened juice products that add to the obesity problem in the U.S.
"Milk is milk. The misleading marketing of certain dairy products as superior in health, nutrition or quality creates undue concerns for consumers and hurts farmers," said Alex Avery, research director for the Center for Global Food Issues in a CGFI press release. "These practices are contributing to reduced consumer demand for affordable, wholesome and nutritionally important ...