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FDA Issues Draft Guidance with Lower Target Levels for Certain Foods

The Phase II targets will continue to focus on commercially processed, packaged, and prepared foods in the marketplace

August 28, 2024

The Phase II voluntary sodium reduction targets follow an initial set of targets issued in October 2021. The initial set of targets encouraged the food industry to reduce sodium levels in a wide variety of processed, packaged, and prepared foods. Preliminary data from 2022 show about 40% of the initial Phase I targets are very close to or have already been reached indicating early success of this effort.

FDA Issues Sodium Reduction Final Guidance

Sodium reduction is a critically important public health issue because Americans consume on average 50% more than the recommended limit for those age 14 years and older

October 15, 2021

The sodium guidance finalizes in part a draft guidance from 2016 that provided short-term (2-year) and long-term (10-year) targets for sodium content in commercially processed, packaged and prepared foods. The FDA received about 200 comments on the draft guidance.

Peekaboo Organics Ice Cream Made with Beets

Creative Processors Sneak More Veggies into Foods

Product developers are tasked with turning out an array of better-for-you products without compromising on flavor or texture

Barbara Zatto

May 9, 2019

To bridge that gulf between what consumers say they want and what they veer toward, on-trend product developers have adopted a "stealth-health" approach to increasing produce content in products.

Job Security: Winning Consumers at an Early Age

The upcoming 2020 USDA will add babies as an age group to its nutrition recommendations in its Dietary Guidelines

David Feder , RDN

April 5, 2018

Last year, the focus was on teens. This year, our inestimable experts, Dr. Keith-Thomas Ayoob (clinical professor emeritus of the Department of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYC) and Jill Litwin (founder and CEO of Peas of Mind LLC, award-winning makers of foods for little ones) swing their attention to the other side of the playground and take a look at babies and infants, the 0-2 age group, in "Building Better Babies."

CRN, IPA Release Best Practice Guidelines for Probiotics

The guidelines recommend that quantitative amounts of probiotics in a product should be expressed in colony forming units

January 19, 2017

As probiotics are quickly gaining popularity, the guidelines are designed to ensure probiotic manufacturers can consistently create high-quality products that consumers can be confident in.

Dietary Guidelines, Label Highlight Added Sugars

Beverage companies using natural sweeteners prior to regulations

November 18, 2016

With the release of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans earlier this year followed by the US Food and Drug Administration’s new Nutrition Facts label, many changes are in store for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers. Among those changes, mainstream media has given its share of attention to one ingredient category: sugar.

Country Pure Foods Acquires New Assets

Smooth-Frozen Ridgefield’s SideKicks and Cup Slushies offer schools more meal options

June 10, 2016

Country Pure Foods, a portion juice processor, recently announced the purchase of the assets of The Ridgefield’s Brand Corporation, which includes Smooth-Frozen Ridgefield’s SideKicks and Cup Slushies products. Ridgefield’s 100% fruit juice products, will allow Country Pure Foods to provide their school nutrition customers with more meal choices for students.

The Science of Safe Food

The Food Science Conference provided detailed insights to the latest advances within the Marshfield lab, as well as testing strategies presented by Cornell Institute for Food Systems.

May 23, 2016

The company continues to bring big science to their small town, giving customers and community access to the latest topics in food science and food safety.

Updating Dietary Guidelines for Salt Consumption

Salt Institute calls for US government to withdraw dietary guidelines for salt consumption

April 14, 2016

Based upon the preponderance of peer-reviewed scientific evidence, the Salt Institute is asking the government to withdraw the recommendations on salt consumption in the Dietary Guidelines because, according to the Salt Institute, they were not formulated through a thorough, unbiased evaluation of available scientific evidence and the misinformation they promulgate is used to justify harmful public policy recommendations.

Evolution of Eggs and Cholesterol

New Dietary Guidelines remove daily limit on cholesterol and include eggs in recommended eating patterns

January 7, 2016

The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) remove a daily limit on dietary cholesterol and include eggs in all three recommended healthy eating patterns, which have been shown to reduce the risk of major chronic health conditions facing Americans.

Switching from plastic to paper-based packaging often comes with new challenges. This webinar will explore how an ovenable, fiber-based packaging solution can deliver the benefits of plastic with 90% less plastic usage.

The Winter Fancy Food Show is where specialty food makers go to exhibit their newest and best products and where buyers go to find their next bestsellers.

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