FDA Announces an Extension of the New Food Label Deadline Without Specified Date
In response to the FDA announcement, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) issued a statement saying that “The ability of the Trump Administration to repeat its mistakes is breathtaking…As with its delay of menu labeling, the FDA will end up denying consumers critical information they need to make healthy food choices in a timely manner and will throw the food industry into disarray.”
Could “an extension” without a deadline eventually become a roll-back or repeal of the planned nutrition label changes? Consumer groups argue “calorie labeling at restaurants, grocery stores and convenience stores is something consumers want, and the measure encourages companies to offer healthier items. Between 2005 and 2011 fast food chains subject to menu labeling laws increased their healthy food choices from 13% to 20% of their overall menus, according to the groups.”
It is our right as consumers to ask (and sometimes demand!) for change in our policy to ultimately reflect and better serve the choices of healthy, happy people. Now that it’s here, we need to hold corporate America responsible and dispel the greed that continues to run rampant and destroy our food system!
Seattle to Become Latest City to Tax Sugary Drinks
“A growing body of research has identified sugary drinks as the biggest contributors to added, empty calories in the American diet, and as a major culprit in a range of costly health problems associated with being overweight.
Under the measure, due to go into effect in January, distributors of all bottled and canned sodas, juice drinks, sports and energy drinks, flavored waters, sweetened teas and ready-to-drink coffee beverages sold in Seattle would pay a tax of 1.75 cents per ounce.”
The Cosmetics Industry — largely self-regulated — Spurs A Lot of Consumer Complaints to the Government
Unlike some other products the Food and Drug Administration handles, products like hair conditioner, makeup and tattoo inks don’t need regulators’ approval to hit the open market. And manufacturers have no legal obligation to report if customers tell them something has gone wrong.
“On a typical block in Hong Kong, thousands of people live on top of each other. Rooftop Republic has helped fill more than 26,000 square feet of rooftop on 22 rooftop farms. The biggest one is on the roof of Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific, where 40 employees manage container vegetable plots on a daily basis.” – NPR, the Salt
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