On July 20, 2022, amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations came into effect, introducing a new nutrition symbol for prepackaged foods. Part of Health Canada’s Healthy Eating Strategy, these ...

Canada has unveiled a new front-of-package nutrition label designed to highlight foods high in certain content that could impact consumers’ health. The new nutrition symbol features a magnifying glass ...

The way you see nutrition labels on food packaging is about to change. By 2025, new front-of-package labels will start appearing on grocery store shelves, and by January 2026, they'll be mandatory.

Health Canada has published new labeling standards for supplemented foods such as snacks and beverages fortified with vitamins and minerals or caffeinated energy drinks; and introduced new nutrition ...

For more than a century, the U.S. government has tried to bring more transparency to food labels. It started in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act cracked down on mislabeled ingredients and false ...

OTTAWA – Foods high in saturated fat, sugars and/or sodium will be required to carry a front-of-package label, according to Health Canada. The label will include the symbol of a magnifying glass, ...

On May 6, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is considering the development of a graphic symbol to help consumers identify packaged food products that meet FDA’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of food & drink. The four proposed nutrition symbols use a variety of symbols and colors to draw ...

It is ironic that as many food and beverage companies work to simplify product ingredient labels by removing ingredients negatively perceived by consumers, they also are facing the challenge of ...

A recent study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has offered the federal government a new way to pass judgment on the food choices of American consumers. The study suggests a visual check-mark system ...