Codex: FDA 'Vetoes' Optimal Nutrition For Health

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Health Supreme Update: Codex: FDA 'Vetoes' Optimal Nutrition

For Health

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Health Supreme Update: Codex: FDA 'Vetoes' Optimal Nutrition For

Health

 

2006.06.04 12:31:26

 

 

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Just a month ago today, at the Codex Alimentarius Food Labelling

Committee meeting in Ottawa, Canada, the US delegate Dr Barbara

Schneeman said that no reference should be made to " optimizing

nutrition and health " in guidelines that would encourage " adequate

information " on food labels. The Committee was discussing how the World

Health Organization's Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and

Health should find expression in the information we find on the labels

of foods bought in supermarkets and - increasingly - at organic food

shops. A laudable step, to improve our health by telling more on food

labels, but alas, the food industry is not keen ...

 

 

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