As part of the health care legislation passed by the US House of Representatives on Sunday, chain restaurants with 20 or more locations will be required to provide nutritional information to diners at...

Consumer lobbyists in Europe have criticised EU politicians for not helping shoppers choose healthier food after Brussels said that it would not push for the mandatory use of traffic-light labels. Earlier...

European politicians have voted against imposing traffic-light nutrition labels on foodstuffs sold across the EU. Members of the European Parliament, sitting on the European Parliament’s Environment...

At the Australian FoodLegal Symposium, which took place on February 23, manufacturers and health experts alike called for food firms to take greater responsibility for creating healthier offerings, especially...

The UK’s Food Standard Agency this morning (10 March) agreed to the implementation of a single approach to front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling.At an open meeting held in Cardiff today, the FSA’s...

The company that sells the popular ‘Lemon Detox’ product, which is widely advertised as a slimming food, has been issued with two penalty notices by the NSW Food Authority for making unsubstantiated...

Nestle and Diamond Foods have insisted they are “co-operating” with the US Food and Drug Administration after the regulator publicly attacked them – and 13 other food makers – over...

Regulations governing food labelling and health claims in the US require more stringent controls, a consumer body insisted yesterday (2 March). According to a new report out from the Centre for Science...

If you have opinions or ideas about how to improve food labelling in Australia, now is the time to do something about it.  The Committee conducting the Independent Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy...

A report just released by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, titled ‘Inspiring Australia’  aims to build a strong, open relationship between science and society,...