Food packaging is built to reassure shoppers. Certain words sound meaningful but often describe far less than people assume.

The first step in understanding food labels is to know what information is required by law. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there are several mandatory components of a food label ...

Americans throw out billions of pounds of food every year because they falsely believe "sell-by" and "best-before" dates on package labels indicate food safety, researchers have found. A study ...

I am writing this in response to Dan Flynn’s raw milk article which appeared in Food Safety News on April 28. Mr. Flynn’s article reported on raw milk legislation currently being considered in Georgia ...

What do “best by,” “use by” and “sell by” on food product labels really mean? — -- We’ve all seen the “best by,” “use by,” “enjoy by” and “sell by” on food labels, but what do they really mean?

This change is happening in California, where lawmakers have passed new food safety regulations that will take effect in July ...

The FDA is weighing a change that could make warning labels on dietary supplements appear less often on packaging.

There’s a good chance that you or someone you know has trashed perfectly good food over confusion about date labels. Now, the US government is looking for a fix. A group of four federal agencies, ...

Between 2011 and 2014, more than 150 class-action lawsuits were filed because of food-labeling practices. Yet Kind is hardly the first to print misleading claims on its packages. In 2009, Kellogg was ...

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Two of the most influential groups in the food industry are asking companies to change those pesky "expiration" or "sell by" labels on packaged food. The labels, you see, don't mean what they appear ...