More and more consumers are seeking to avoid products from “factory farms”—where animals are kept in abysmal conditions. Such consumers often look for animal-raising claims on packaging labels that ...

In June 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a major update to its General Food Labeling Requirements Compliance Program—the first overhaul of this program since 2010. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person pointing at nutritional facts. - Rix Pix Photography/Shutterstock Since the 1990s, foods ...

Legislation pushing an overhaul of the U.S. food labeling requirements and putting warning labels on ultra-processed foods have been introduced or advanced in the Senate this month.

Executive Summary Recent court cases finding that the Food and Drug Administration’s bans on certain health claims are unconstitutional have prompted the agency to solicit comments about new ...

Roughly nine years ago, while serving as Vice President for Food Safety at the world’s largest food retailer, I surveyed how many different date labels were used by food producers to convey that food ...

The FDA’s Food Labeling Guide sets clear standards for ingredient disclosure, allergen statements, nutritional content, and date coding. Many jurisdictions also mandate clear “use-by” or “prepared-on” ...

Since the 1990s, foods sold in the U.S. have come with a familiar black-and-white table listing out their nutritional facts in precise detail down to the milligrams of protein and carbohydrates. Some ...