Viewpoint: What might be the impact of ultra-processed food labels?
Viewpoint: What might be the impact of ultra-processed food labels?
After decades of lobbying, the US government has finally started taking action to warn consumers about the hazards of ultra-processed foods [UPFs]: your potato chips, granola bars, cereal, frozen pizza, even many types of store-bought bread.
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Earlier this year, in an effort to combat the rising burden of these chronic diseases, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under former President Joe Biden proposed a new policy that would require food producers to add new nutrition labels to the front of most packaged foods, warning consumers about the high fat, sodium, and sugar content typically found in UPFs. New Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr., will likely continue this work; he has called UPFs “poison,” and has promised reform.
Nutritional labels on UPF[s], along with other policy changes such as banning certain food dyes, is just the beginning…many are hopeful that Kennedy’s “food is medicine” outlook will usher in change, [yet] many fear that the Trump administration’s federal staff and budget cuts will hamper efforts.
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