Government perspective: food labeling

The new Dietary Reference Intakes in food labeling: the food industry's perspective.

The food industry appreciates the complexity of applying the new Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) in labeling. The industry is prepared to update food labels to reflect new nutrient recommendations and views upcoming changes as an opportunity to harmonize nutrition information across the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, MyPyramid.gov, and the food label. Members of the Grocery Manufacture...

Commentary: government perspective.

Toward more comprehensive food labeling.

n engl j med 371;3 nejm.org july 17, 2014 193 urgently needed, and likely to make an important contribution to consumer behavior. But I believe they don’t go far enough — additional labeling requirements can do more to influence food choices, reduce obesity, and promote health. More than two decades ago, during my tenure as FDA commissioner, our team had the opportunity to design the nowiconic ...

Food Security and Government Intervention

All human societies must solve a set of problems related to food. The first of these is to procure edible plants and animals through some form of production process. Early humans relied mainly on hunting, fishing, and gathering all of which are still practiced in the modern world. About 10,000 years ago, certain plants and animals were domesticated giving rise to new methods to produce food. Cr...

Project Penlight - A Government Perspective

The University of Pennsylvania has been very successful in developing the coreference engine. The work in this area has been recognized as valuable by other researchers in the Summarization effort. As a result, the University will be making its coreference software (known as CAMP) available to the research community on the World Wide Web. The potential importance of this work as a whole to the ...