Category: Issue 723
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Guidance Released on Converting Vitamin Measures for Nutrition Label
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling has released guidance providing “step-by-step instructions to manufacturers of retail food products marketed in the United States on how they may convert the previous units of measure for certain nutrients to the new units in the updated Nutrition Facts label.” The guidance also…
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OEHHA Releases Agenda for Symposium on Synthetic Food Dyes
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has released the agenda for its September 19-20, 2019, symposium on synthetic food dyes. OEHHA is “conducting a risk assessment of the potential impacts of synthetic food dyes,” focusing on dyes batch-certified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The symposium, which can be attended in…