The FDA provides guidance explaining food ingredient and packaging terms that help businesses better understand labels, additives, packaging materials and food safety requirements.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday released draft guidance describing the process for drug companies when they have to update a generic’s label after the reference product (for which ...

Obesity can alter the action of many types of medications in ways affecting safety and/or efficacy, but this often isn’t mentioned in the labels. Experts in obesity and pharmacology are trying to ...

The FDA is delaying implementation of a rule that would require food companies to print nutritional information on the front labels of their products. The proposed rule was developed by President ...

A federal proposal would require a small “nutrition info” box on the front of most packaged foods describing if saturated fat, sodium and added sugars content was “low,” “medium,” or “high.” A new ...

After 20 years of hemming, hawing, and “evaluating the science,” the FDA is finally muscling its way onto the most coveted real estate in the grocery store —your food’s front-of-package (FOP). The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman reads the nutrition facts on a product while shopping at the grocery store. It could soon be harder to ignore the ...

Requirements now include limits on saturated fat, sodium and added sugars. “Healthy” foods must also contain a certain amount of food from at least one of the key food groups outlined in the current ...

The FDA last overhauled its Nutrition Facts label in 2016. Now, a decade later, new food and beverage label changes are expected to roll out. What’s on your label? It may be changing soon. The Food ...

Regulatory Focus' ongoing series of Regulatory Explainers take complicated regulatory topics and make them simple enough for anyone to understand. In our latest Regulatory Explainer, we ...

Federal law requires every prescription drug to include a document describing dosing guidelines, contraindications, results from clinical trials and safety considerations. But a spate of recent court ...

A label begins with highlights, a succinct, half-page summary of the information that health care practitioners most commonly refer to and view as most important (Figure 2). [4] This section provides ...