Editor’s note: This is the second in a series on health claims on food packaging. According to an article published in a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, people don’t ...

Walking through a grocery store can feel straightforward, but much of what appears simple is carefully engineered. Packaging, ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration will test out labels on the front of food packages in the hope of giving shoppers better access to nutrition information, the agency said.The goal is to ...

The first step in understanding food labels is to know what information is required by law. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there are several mandatory components of a food label ...

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When grocery shoppers scan food packaging labels, what they see are prices and sell-by dates. But what they don’t see are the harmful chemicals that may be seeping from the labels into the food, ...