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The committee’s work will kick off at a public meeting to be announced in the coming weeks. The committee will review scientific evidence on specific nutrition and health related topics and scientific questions (PDF, 477 KB) that, for the first time, reflect both public comments and federal agency input. Throughout their deliberations, the public and other stakeholders will be encouraged to provide comments and feedback.

While the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends an intake of added sugar of less than 10% of daily calories, only 42% of Americans are meeting this guideline.

According to the survey, conducted by the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation and the American Heart Association, almost all Americans (95%) report that they always or sometimes look for healthy options when food shopping.

Now with reports of the sugar industry having quietly funded Harvard research in the ‘60s to shift blame from sugar onto fat as the cause of chronic disease, the momentum for the case to find long-term alternatives to added sugar is only gaining. 

The organic industry takes the Secretary at his word that USDA just needs a bit more time. But after more than a decade of work, now spanning three administrations, this delay will not reveal any new information.  

Claim enables food manufacturers to communicate the relationship between high-amylose maize resistant starch and a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes

Solvaira Specialties has announced that Jit Ang will speak at the September 16, 2016 conference on FDA & USDA changes to labeling of dietary fibers.

Consumer interest in pulses is growing in part because the United Nations has designated 2016 as the International Year of Pulses.

Launching later this summer, the new packaging will debut on the company’s products including the Mini Chocolate Bars, Chocolate Drops, Bags of Animals, Trail Mix, Chocolate Covered Mini-Twists and Skippers®.