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Article: NEW MILK LABELING SHOULD END CONFUSION.(Spotlight on Health & Fitness)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 10, 1997
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Byline: Pat Kendall
Skim milk is about to become a thing of the past - not the product, but the name. It's being changed to ``fat-free'' milk.
Milk labeling is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. For more than 30 years, when you purchased milk in the grocery store, you had a choice between regular full-fat or whole milk, generally labeled as ``homogenized'' or ``vitamin D'' milk, and three reduced fat milks: 2 percent low-fat, 1 percent low-fat and skim or nonfat milk.
The labeling terms created much confusion. They didn't tell you how much fat was in regular milk, the terms 1 percent and 2 percent fat didn't have much meaning, and ...