If "you are what you eat," what are you when many confusing food labels muddy the issue? Labels have become a way to promote self-identification with a worldview, tied to ethics, the environment and ...

Certification labels can confuse consumers and stigmatise foods that do not carry a mark, despite being otherwise healthy, a new study suggests. There has been a proliferation of certification labels ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2015 - Government mandates for labeling food to show its production process are a bad idea because they could mislead consumers and be used to belittle rival products, a panel of ...

A report by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) published Monday states that “process labels” for food should only be mandated when the product has been scientifically ...

When customers walk down aisles of grocery stores, they are inundated with labels such as organic, fair-trade and cage free, just to name a few. Labels such as these may be eye-catching but are often ...

Organic. Fair-trade. Cage free. Those designations on food, called process labels because they describe how products are made or originated, can be useful but also can can be misleading, says a ...

"We're kosher and have to answer to an even higher authority," was the tagline in Hebrew National's amusing TV advertisement suggesting that God's production requirements for its hotdogs exceed those ...

At first glance, the new FDA Nutrition Facts label, introduced by Michelle Obama in May, doesn’t look terribly different from what we’ve had since 1994. The calories are bigger and bolder. The serving ...