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FDA Holds Hearing on Food Labels
Posted on September 17, 2008
If you go down the candy aisle and you pick up any number of candy bars or other confectionery products, you are going to see a variety of these 'may contain'-type labels: 'may contain peanuts,' 'processed on shared equipment,' 'manufactured in a facility that processes peanuts or milk or whatever it is,' said Anne Munoz Furlong, founder of The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network in Fairfax, Va. Nobody knows what it means. Some [labels] are completely ridiculous, and the result is that consumers are confused and are forced to have very limited food choices or take risks. We would like to s...
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