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THE WEEK, Page 23HEALTH & SCIENCEWhat's Really in That Bag of Potato Chips?
New labeling rules will end confusion over food contents
Having trouble figuring out the food lable on your cereal?
Low-fat yogurt? Cranberry juice? Relax. Help is on the way. The
Bush Administration has unveiled new rules that should help
solve the mysteries of what packaged foods really contain.
Finalized after weeks of wrangling between the Departments of
Agriculture and Health and Human Services, the 4,000 pages of
regulations spell out guidelines for labeling the amount of
calories, fat and nutrients in everything from potato chips to
cans of soup. This boon to the consumer doesn't come cheap. By
May of 1994, more than 270,000 food labels must be changed,
costing the industry about $2 billion. But, it will be worth
the trouble, says HHS Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan, "The Tower
of Babel in food labels has come down, and American consumers
are the winners." Still, the new labeling system won't tell
shoppers how to create a healthy diet. That's one thing they
will have to figure out for themselves.