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Healthy Corners Wheeler market display case. Photo courtesy of Corryn La Rue, Agri-Pulse.

Food safety, nutrition labeling are 2025 priorities for FDA's new Human Foods Program

FDA's Human Foods Program released its 2025 Priority Deliverables today, which details the primary focuses for its first year under the reorganization. Highlights include a goal to issue guidance on action levels for lead in food intended for infants and young children, finalizing the rule on the “healthy” claim and proposing a rule on front of package nutrition labeling. 


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FDA offers new ‘healthy’ labeling plan, but will consumers care?

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing some major rule changes for foods that can be marketed as “healthy," potentially allowing new products to qualify while eliminating others. But few foods are labeled as "healthy" are current rules, and experts say it's not clear how much consumers will care about the proposed new labeling system either.
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