Food & Beverage Litigation & Regulatory Update

Tag: fat

  • Study Compares Menu Items in U.K. Restaurants With and Without Calorie Labels

    U.K. researchers have published the findings of a comparison of calorie counts on menu items in restaurants that feature labeling of those counts and in restaurants without such labeling. Dolly R.Z. Theis & Jean Adams, “Differences in energy and nutritional content of menu items served by popular UK chain restaurants with versus without voluntary menu…

  • U.K. Public Consultation to Examine Ads for Foods High in Fat, Sugar and Salt

    The United Kingdom has launched a public consultation on a proposal to restrict some types of advertising for foods high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS). The consultation targets “volume-based price promotions of HFSS food and drink that encourage people to buy more than they need, for example, ‘buy one, get one free’ and free…

  • New York Times Editorial Criticizes Fear of Food Ingredients

    Aaron Carroll, a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, argues in a New York Times editorial that “panic-du-jour” about unhealthy foods encourages people to unnecessarily live “in terror or struggling to avoid certain foods altogether.” Carroll asserts that the repeated condemnation of various food ingredients—including fat, cholesterol, meat, monosodium glutamate, genetically modified organisms and gluten—“shows…

  • AHA Advisory Examines Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease

    The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued an advisory concluding that replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats will lower the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially if combined with an “overall healthful dietary pattern.” Frank M. Sacks, et al, “Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association,” Circulation, June 15,…

  • AHA Advisory Examines Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease

    The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued an advisory concluding that replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats will lower the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially if combined with an “overall healthful dietary pattern.” Frank M. Sacks, et al, “Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association,” Circulation, June 15,…

  • WHO Report Recommends “Urgent Action” to Curtail Digital Food Marketing to Children

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a November 4, 2016, report titled “Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world: trans-disciplinary perspectives,” which urges policymakers “to reduce children’s exposure to all forms of marketing for foods high in fats, salt and sugars [HFSS], including via digital media.” In particular, the report claims digital marketing…

  • FDA Issues Industry Guidance on “Healthy” Labeling

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened a docket and released industry guidance on the use of the term “healthy” in the labeling of human food products. Responding to Kind LLC’s citizen petition asking the agency to align its nutrient content claim regulations with federal dietary guidance, FDA invites “public comment on the…

  • Sugar Industry Allegedly Funded Research Linking Dietary Fats to Heart Disease

    Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco, including its Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, published a September 12, 2016, JAMA article claiming that studies funded by the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) “singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of CHD [coronary heart disease] and downplayed evidence that sucrose consumption was also…