Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) upheld an Administrative Law Judge’s decision from May 2012, that the marketers of POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice and supplements used deceptive advertising to market their products: The company did not have adequate support … Continue reading
The FDA is planning a minor facelift to the 20 year old nutrition label. When nutrition labels were introduced into the market, the food industry battled vehemently against them, while the government and health organizations explained that providing detailed information … Continue reading
Scientists at Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity conducted an interesting study with cereals: Through an online survey, researchers asked parents with children between the ages of 2 and 11 to view images of actual box fronts of … Continue reading
Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be. Oakland, CA based Prevention Institute recently published a study entitled Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children’s Food with some interesting findings. The consumer protection group reviewed dozens of products that are marketed as healthy … Continue reading
The GAO – Government Accountability Office – (yes, there is such a thing) issued a report late last week, telling the FDA it needs to do a better job protecting consumers from misleading health claims on products. According to the … Continue reading
Our second yogurt post this week, with good news for consumers. Dannon, which has been aggressively marketing its Activia line of yogurts, will stop making unsubstantiated health claims effective immediately. This, according to a $21M settlement with the FTC: The … Continue reading
Late last week a federal judge ruled in favor of consumers when he allowed a lawsuit against Vitamin Water to proceed. The lawsuit was filed in early 2009 by the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). … Continue reading
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it had reached an agreement with Nestlé regarding the latter’s BOOST Kids Essentials Drink, whereby the company will stop making ludicrous health claims and the FTC will discontinue investigations or impose a fine. … Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission normally doesn’t get involved in misleading health claims for foods, it’s the FDA’s jurisdiction. But something in Kellogg’s behavior over the past 2 years must have really annoyed somebody at the FTC. At first it was … Continue reading
The FDA is asking YOU for ideas on how to improve product nutrition information on front of package (FOP) and shelves (not the nutrition panel). The goal is to enhance the usefulness to consumers of point-of-purchase nutrition information, such as … Continue reading