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The Food and Drug Administration could roll out a new logo as soon as this year for companies to stamp on the packaging of "healthy" foods they make, aimed at clearing up confusion on what ...
Industry-driven food-labelling programs are here to stay, and you'll likely see a few new logos in the coming year. (Unilever is expected to roll out its own "Eat Smart" program in Canada by 2008.) ...
The Healthy Teens on the Move Advocacy Committee, made up of local high school students, has jumpstarted a new campaign that identifies healthy food options via logos in Baldwin Park’s grocery stores.
The more a child is familiar with logos and other images from fast-food restaurants, sodas and not-so-healthy snack food brands, the more likely the child is to be overweight or obese. And ...
A Nutri-score logo on yoghurt. Photo: Cz ja [CC0] via Wikimedia Commons The government has given the green light to a new system of food labeling which it hopes will help consumers make ‘healthy ...
The Food and Drug Administration is changing the way food companies can claim their products are "healthy." Fortified white bread is out, and fatty fish like salmon is in. Most everything in the ...
Dutch dairy manufacturer FrieslandCampina has been cautioned about the use of a healthy foods logo from packs of its reduced fat ham and cheese. The logo, introduced last year, in a joint initiative ...
According to a report released earlier this month by the Dietitians of Canada, the average Canadian makes 228 trips to the grocery store each year and the majority of food-buying decisions -- 80 ...
BALDWIN PARK – The El Mambi grocery store sits just a few feet away from Sierra Vista High School, where students stroll in every day after classes for cheap junk food. “They come in and buy ...