The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end? - eviltoast
The FDA is developing front-of-package labels that corporations may have to start printing as early as 2027

The FDA is developing front-of-package labels that corporations may have to start printing as early as 2027

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    More information will not change the system.

    “People really do struggle in the real world to interpret percent daily value,” says Marissa G Hall, a professor of health behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.

    So people can’t interpret the information already, but this time we’ll give them the right information?

    Putting all the responsibility onto individuals changes very little. Pricing and where subsidies go might be able to change eating habits.