The FDA is helping companies comply with the new labeling by providing several new guidance documents on issues related to serving sizes, format of the label, and other technical issues. The FDA intends to issue a final guidance on declaring added sugars on single-ingredient packages of sugars, syrups and cranberry products soon.
Compare the original and the new Nutrition Facts Label designs below.
Labeling for Transparency and Clarity The Nutrition Innovation Strategy addresses the need to modernize our approach to claims consumers see on food packaging. Public health recommendations for what is considered healthy when it comes to diet have evolved. Moreover, healthy dietary patterns now focus on food groups, the type of fat rather than the total amount of fat consumed, and now address excess added sugars in the diet. In light of these changes, and following extensive public input, FDA is working on a proposed rule to redefine the term “Healthy” when used as a nutrient content claim on a food package to update the criteria for this claim, which FDA intends to publish soon. More work on claims will follow.
Unhealthy diets are at least partly to blame for chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes. This reality is among the reasons that nutrition has and always will be a key priority for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 2018 the agency unveiled its Nutrition Innovation Strategy as a significant part of its efforts to reduce preventable death and disease related to poor nutrition. One way to achieve this is by encouraging industry innovation to create healthier products that consumers seek and helping them identify those products.
While there is still a lot of work ahead, FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and its dedicated staff are committed to empowering consumers with nutritional information to help improve their health. The FDA also strives to encourage and assist industry in making available healthier options in the marketplace - both for the short-term and in the years ahead.
FDA Susan Mayne, Ph.D., Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Compare the original and the new Nutrition Facts Label designs below.
Labeling for Transparency and Clarity The Nutrition Innovation Strategy addresses the need to modernize our approach to claims consumers see on food packaging. Public health recommendations for what is considered healthy when it comes to diet have evolved. Moreover, healthy dietary patterns now focus on food groups, the type of fat rather than the total amount of fat consumed, and now address excess added sugars in the diet. In light of these changes, and following extensive public input, FDA is working on a proposed rule to redefine the term “Healthy” when used as a nutrient content claim on a food package to update the criteria for this claim, which FDA intends to publish soon. More work on claims will follow.
Unhealthy diets are at least partly to blame for chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes. This reality is among the reasons that nutrition has and always will be a key priority for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 2018 the agency unveiled its Nutrition Innovation Strategy as a significant part of its efforts to reduce preventable death and disease related to poor nutrition. One way to achieve this is by encouraging industry innovation to create healthier products that consumers seek and helping them identify those products.
While there is still a lot of work ahead, FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and its dedicated staff are committed to empowering consumers with nutritional information to help improve their health. The FDA also strives to encourage and assist industry in making available healthier options in the marketplace - both for the short-term and in the years ahead.
FDA Susan Mayne, Ph.D., Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
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