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Article: FDA rules allow functional food labeling.(Food and Drug Administration)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- January 20, 2003
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2003 JAN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has moved a step closer to providing American consumers with more and better label information about their foods by adopting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) standard for food advertising, according to the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA).
Under the FDA's new Consumer Health Information Initiative, consumers will also have expanded nutrition choices as the FDA has made it easier for food companies to inform consumers about the health benefits of a wide variety of foods.
The FDA will now use the standard of the "reasonable consumer" to evaluate food label claims - a ...