Tell the FDA What “Natural” Should Mean for Food Products

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By Julie Fidler

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opened a 90-day comment period for the public to share its thoughts concerning how the word “natural” should be defined on food labels.

To keep up with consumer demands for organic, GMO products, food companies have been slapping terms like “natural,” “all natural,” “simply made,” and “made with natural ingredients” on their goods, but there aren’t any formal rules or regulations that determine what they mean.

The difficult-to-pronounce ingredients listed on food labels are “generally recognized as safe” by the FDA, but this obviously makes it nearly impossible for consumers to know what …read more

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