Reading food labels won’t help if the labels lie
Sunday, November 23, 2008 17:05Hat tip to Terrierman this morning for making me extremely happy that everything I will eat today came from the local organic farmer’s market, my own garden or my own hens. From the Center for Science in The Public Interest:
A new report from the Government Accountability Office gives federal food regulators failing marks when it comes to preventing false and misleading labeling.
The GAO report found that while the number of food firms and products has increased dramatically, the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight and enforcement efforts “have not kept pace.” The FDA is supposed to conduct label reviews when it inspects foreign food firms, but in 2007 only inspected 95 firms overseas (there are tens of thousands) and in only 11 countries (out of 150 that export food to the U.S.)
Here’s the rest.
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