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Chilean children are now seeing fewer junk food ads, and Chilean parents are making healthier food purchases for their kids. We need a mandatory, eye-catching front-of-package food label that ...
New labels will soon alert consumers to information already on the back of food packaging about low, medium or high levels of sodium, added sugars and saturated fat.
In Israel, there’s a red warning label on such food and drinks. And in Singapore, beverages display a letter grade based on how nutritious they are. ... with obesity affecting about 42% of U.S ...
Fast food labels without the calorie amount increase the risks of obesity. In the article of M. Mclnerney et al. is examined the impact of fast food labeling on college students' weight loss. In the study the students required to label the calories of fast foods in the items' lists.
The United States food and beverage industry has increased the amount of advertising that intensively and aggressively targets children through multiple channels. [1] Food marketers know that the youth consumers have equal if not more spending power than adults, they hold purchasing influence, and have the potential to be lifelong consumers.
Despite worries from some in the food industry that red foods would be shunned, the British Medical Association, Food Standards Agency and others agree that consumers interpret the labels sensibly and realise they can have red foods as a treat, and these labels are easier to understand than lists of percentages.
Misleading food date labels are a key factor that contributes to food waste in America, a problem that generates over 160 billion pounds of food waste each year.
Mandatory labelling is mandated in most developed nations and increasingly also in developing nations, especially for food products, e.g. "Grade A" meats. With regard to food and drugs, mandatory labelling has been a major battleground between consumer advocates and corporations since the late 19th century.