[USMA:32609] Food Labeling - a chance for feedback from USMA members!

[Hillger, Don]

From one of our more active USMA members:   The FDA is starting to look at changes to nutrition labels: see http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2005/NEW01170.html   (Not really any direct relevance to metric labeling. The bottom of the release has pointers to the notices, which are scanned so rather huge, 1.1MB and 1.5MB).   The USMA President is urging members to use this as an opportunity for metric proponents to suggest kilojoules.  But since the FDA's entire focus is on calories, kilojoules for energy or even dual labeling with calories/kilojoules would probably not be even slightly palatable to them.  But it is an opportunity to give input and alert the FDA that some Americans think it is time to "think kilojoules."   Don USMA Webmaster/USMA List Manager