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Article: Building a better food label.
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- September 1, 1991
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1991 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Most people are familiar with what the Food and Drug Administration has been up to lately. First, we took action against orange juice labeled "fresh" when it was in fact highly processed. Next, we acted against products labeled "no cholesterol" when they were high in fat.
Our reasons for moving against these products were simple. The claim of freshness on processed food products is false. And the "no cholesterol" label on vegetable oil - 100 percent fat - is misleading, pure and simple.
It is time to place these actions in a broader perspective. Nothing FDA has done so far should be construed as meaning that we want to interrupt the flow of information ...