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These contents are always listed twice, per 100g (100mL for liquids) and per serving. But the serving on the label has nothing to do with the standard serves in the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating.
The industry has opposed the idea of defining serving size by fluid ounces of pure alcohol — or as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor — on the grounds that ...
WASHINGTON -- Food companies that put misleading serving sizes on labels should face warnings and fines, according to the federal government's task force charged with fighting the epidemic of ...
The redesigned labels will feature calorie counts and serving sizes more prominently in bigger, bold-faced fonts. "To help address obesity, one of the most important public health problems facing ...
The new label proposed today by the FDA has a couple new features on it: the print for the calorie counts and serving sizes is larger, nutrient totals are easier to find, and there’s a new line ...
The label would also up the standard serving sizes on some items. One serving of ice cream, for example, will grow from one-half of a cup to 1 cup to better reflect how much people actually eat ...
One serving or two? Nutrition labels to get their first major overhaul in two decades () Feb 27, 2014 Listen • 19:03 ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to make the Nutrition Facts label on many packaged foods significantly more honest. It's a well-intentioned fix that some think could backfire.
This is the first overhaul for nutrition labels since the FDA began requiring them more than 20 years ago. There has been a shift in shoppers’ priorities as nutrition is better understood and ...