FDA Recommends Menu Tagging Requirements

Food and Drug Administration has suggested on Friday that restaurant diners will become aware of what they are eating based on menu categories.

With this FDA requirement, every chain restaurant, grocery store, bakery, coffee chain and convenience store will have to post the calorie content of all the items on their menu. Drive-through lanes and vending machines are also expected …

FDA to Reassess Artificial Food Coloring Health Concerns

It can be recalled that the federal government has guaranteed the consumers that artificial food colorings are safe with no possible health issues. Now, they approve the public reassessment on whether or not foods like Minute Maid Lemonade, Jell-O and Lucky Charms cereal which all use bright artificial colors.

The re-examination will focus on the possibility that artificial food colors …

Safety Information Cascaded through the new FDA Website

The Food and Drug Administration recently launched their website cascading health information on recently approved drugs and vaccines that can be very useful to health care professionals and patients.

FDA aims to share what it has acquired with regards to the wellbeing of a new drug, like vaccines and new medicines.  Reports of safety alerts …

Food and Nutrient Tables: Are They a Definitive Guide to Healthy Eating?

The difficulties of constructing food composition tables and nutrient databases lie mainly on the fact that choosing foods would commensurate on various criteria. The quality of food composition data is greatly influenced by the control of variation in food composition, the accuracy in the description of nutrients, the methods of analysis and the mode of data expression (Leclercq et al., …