New food labeling system may reduce calorie intake

If a food label told you that you would need to run for 25 minutes to burn off the product’s calories, would it put you off? A new study investigates.

Health claims on packaging for many foods marketed to UK kids are ‘confusing’

The health claims made on the product packaging for a large proportion of foods marketed to children in the UK are ‘confusing,’ and could be contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity.

Pet foods contain animal contents not explicitly identified on labels in the UK

Several brands of pet food contain unspecified animal species, and various proportions of beef, chicken and pork that are not explicitly identified on the product labels, according to research in the…