The endless debate over the not-so-new-anymore Nutrition Facts label took an unexpected turn March 1 when the Food and Drug Administration announced new guidance on a few of the finer points of the redesigned labels. The FDA weighed in on added...

More than 60 members of the American Baker’s Association (ABA) gathered in Denver this week for the summer Federal Technical and Regulatory Affairs Committee (FTRAC) meeting.

On May 20, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized a rule to modernize the Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods. The FDA set compliance dates of July 26, 2017 for large companies to meet the new requirements, and an extra...

Sodium reduction is an important topic and is something the public health community and the FDA have been spending a lot of time evaluating, specifically looking at how to decrease the sodium intake in the American diet. And when the FDA starts...

On June 1, 2016, FDA released a draft voluntary guidance which outlines short-term (two years) and long-term (ten years) targets to help reduce the American’s average sodium intake by 11.8 percent and 23.3 percent respectively. But where did the...

On June 1, 2016, FDA released a draft voluntary guidance which outlines short-term (two years) and long-term (ten years) targets to help reduce the American’s average sodium intake by 11.8 percent and 23.3 percent respectively. So why is there a...