FDA Study on Misleading Food Labels is Misleading
August 7, 2006 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Food and Drink, Media, Medicine
Excellent article over on The Center for Science in the Public Interest doing a little watchdoggin’ on our beloved FDA.
From the original CSPI report:
The FDA report implies that agency inspectors checked more than 28,000 food labels for inaccurate nutrition information within a recent 14 month period when in reality, the inspectors merely checked to see whether a Nutrition Facts panel was present on the label, not whether it was accurate.
Well, spanks, but no-spanks, FDA. I can tell if the label is there or not WITH MY EYE. I wonder what was spent on this worthless study of 28,000 food items over 14 months?
What they implied they did would be info I could really use. A little reassurance of some accuracy in advertising in the hurricane of information we walk around in every day would certainly be nice.
CSPI Report via Sugar Shock! (pops)
[tags] FDA, diet, label, food, report [/tags]
