According to:
http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm334749.htm
the period for public comment has not yet opened.
"The updates are still being formulated. Public input will be sought
when they are proposed."
Jim
On 2014-01-23 13:49, c...@traditio.com wrote:
This is an issue that our USMA officers should jump upon to monitor
carefully monitor and to intervene with the FDA: the FDA is considering
revising the Nutrition Fact Labels on all food products. A Washington
Post article
(www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/fda-to-revise-nutrition-facts-label/2014/01/23/29e06204-8453-11e3-a273-6ffd9cf9f4ba_story.html)
indicates that:
1) Grams may be removed as a unit.
2) Serving sizes now given in grams may be replaced by the flawed
"teaspoon" that Paul Trusten as so often warned us against.
Both of these flawed anti-metric ideas are being promoted by someone
named Michael Jacobson, who claims to run some group called Science in
the Public Interest. This Jacobson and his organization should be
checked out and educated in a personal conference by one of our
officers. Often these civic-sounding groups are fronts for another
agenda (anti-metric?). Science in the public interest is to use metric!
This might be a good opportunity to Lorelle Young or Paul Trusten (whom
I have copied in to this message) to get an education article in The
Washington Post. The Nutrition Facts Labels are seen by hundreds of
million. To lose this pro-metric tool would be horrible.
Martin Morrison
USMA Today "Metric Training and Education" Columnist
