I am writing to you today about the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act. I’m hoping that you will put your full support behind this bill‚ promoting clarity for consumers and helping to prevent unnecessary cost increases at the grocery store. It is extremely important to me that the food I purchase is safe. The FDA has long been in charge of that‚ and we trust their labels. Now we have products with are labeled "natural" or "GMO-free"‚ but what does that mean? We know that foods labeled "organic"
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Branding‚ Packaging and Labeling Packaging and Labeling What you’ll learn . . . • The principal functions of product packaging • The main functions of labels Packaging • The physical container or wrapping for a product. Functions of Packaging • Promoting and Selling the Product Functions of Packaging • Defining Product Identity – invokes prestige‚ convenience‚ or status Functions of Packaging • Provides Information – UPC symbols‚ contents‚ guarantees‚ nutritional value
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Food labeling has come a long way. It’s surprising but it wasn’t until 1990 that the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act required all packaged foods to include nutritional information. Required categories of nutritional labeling regulations include the ingredients list‚ serving size‚ nutrition facts‚ and daily value standards of nutrients. Additionally‚ if the product wishes to make claims about nutrients and healthfulness‚ they must substantiate them in some way. Nutritional information for non-packaged
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The Effects of Labeling Read the following excerpt from the report of a study conducted with 5th graders whose littering behavior the school’s administrating was attempting to correct. . . . Some of the students received lectures on the importance of being neat and tidy. These included lectures on ecology and the dangers of pollution‚ on why it is important to throw away lunchroom trash‚ and a plea from the janitor to keep things clean. Other students did not receive a lecture but were repeatedly
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Marlen Martinez Ms. Stamper English 1A T/Th 8:00 Am M P #1 Benefits of Menu Labeling Menu labeling in restaurants can help fight one of America’s biggest problems which is obesity. Health officials say calorie counts can help prevent diabetes as well as other illnesses. Also it has been shown that nutrition information in restaurant menus does make customers choose meals with fewer calories. Consumption of restaurant food has increased dramatically‚ therefore it is better to inform customers what
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The Importance of Food Labeling It’s Important that food producers label foods so that people can choose to avoid irradiated or genetically modified food. Also‚ food labeling is crucial to people with certain food allergies. Some foods are irradiated to clear foods of food-borne diseases and provide support for unsafe factory farming practices. When food is genetically modified the food is engineered with different strains of DNA mixed with different proteins and unnatural chemicals which lead to
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Labeling is among the various definitions of criminality in the study of crime‚ the criminal justice system and criminal behavior. It can be used to determine and influence self identity and the behavior of people. Labeling does not consider why some groups are more likely to commit a crime it determines why some people or individuals are labeled and why others are not. It can also determine the impact of the labeling on the person and molds the way the person might behave (LaFave‚ 2006).
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modified crops remains unanswered. This issue can be found irrelevant due to the fact that there is no difference found in meat‚ egg‚ or dairy products derived from GM fed livestock and non-GM fed livestock. Overall‚ one can see that the idea of labeling genetically modified products is not only difficult‚ but an extremely controversial and undefined
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Restaurant menu labeling should be required on all menu items. Not only should restaurants be required to simply state the caloric value of their foods‚ but they should also be required to state average caloric value intake for adults. Furthermore‚ when interpretive labels (i.e.‚ infographics and/or symbols) are used in sharing the calorie content‚ individuals make better choices since graphics are easy to understand and more visually attractive than just reading plain text and are more likely to
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holidays. If this proposal were to become law‚ companies would not be required to disclose whether their products have been genetically modified. "It is imperative that Congress take action now to prevent a costly and confusing patchwork of state labeling laws from taking effect next year and spreading across the country‚" reads a letter crafted by food industry members intended for House and Senate leaders.
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