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How the FDA’s new nutrition labels could prod the food industry to get healthier 

STAT

A new government proposal to display nutritional labels on the front of food packaging is aimed at helping Americans make more informed choices about what they eat. An eventual side effect, research and expert commentary suggests, could be nudging the food industry to make healthier food, too.

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STAT+: The FDA is testing new nutrition labels on the front of food packages

STAT

Much of the Americas already has so-called front of package labels — small symbols printed on packaged foods that alert consumers when a food is high in certain unhealthy nutrients like sodium or saturated fat. But designing a label is harder than it looks, and nearly every country does it differently.

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Boots Paracetamol batch recalled after being wrongly labelled as Aspirin

The Pharmacist

Almost 120,000 packs of Boots Paracetamol have been recalled because of a packaging error where they are incorrectly labelled as Aspirin on the foil blister.

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Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules. A similar fight is coming to the U.S.

STAT

A 2019 policy requires companies that make unhealthy foods to include warning labels on the front of any boxes they sell in Mexico to educate consumers about things like excess sugar and fat. MEXICO CITY — Kellogg’s is waging a war here over Tigre Toño and Sam el Tucán. Read the rest…

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Opinion: FDA’s plan to define “healthy” for food packaging: Better than the existing labeling anarchy, but do we really need it?

STAT

” The proposed rules are a lot better than the labeling anarchy that currently exists. The FDA has announced the set of rules it proposes to enforce for manufacturers to claim that a food product is “healthy.” But here’s my bottom line: health claims are not about health. They are about selling food products.

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AYUSH, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry organise conference on labelling and packaging provisions for ASU products

Express Pharma

AYUSH Committee, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry organised a Conference on Labelling and Packaging Provisions for ASU products recently at PHD House, New Delhi. He also highlighted that a draft notification will soon be coming for the Industry on the indication of packaging.

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Labelling of Dispensed Medicine

RX Note

Labelling Requirements A ll dispensed medicine should be labelled according to the requirement stated by the law. NOTE: It is advisable for labels to be printed. Consequently, a patient-centred label strategy is introduced to promote appropriate medication use and adherence. Suggestions include Use larger font sizes (e.g.