Food Labeling

• From the National Institutes of Health
• Reading Food Labels (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

• Overviews
• Deciphering Food Labels (Nemours Foundation)
• Guidance on How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Panel on Food Labels (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition)
  Also available in: Spanish

• Health Check Tools
• Test Your Food Label Knowledge! (Food and Drug Administration)

• Specific Conditions
• FDA Warns Milk Producers to Remove "Hormone Free" Claims From the Labeling of Dairy Products (Food and Drug Administration)
• Serving Sizes in the Food Guide Pyramid and on the Nutrition Facts Label: What's Different and Why? (Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion) - Links to PDF File
• Skimming the Milk Label (Food and Drug Administration)

• Related Issues
• Label Reading Tips...How to Find the Hidden Sodium (Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus Foundation)
• Questions and Answers about Trans Fat Nutrition Labeling (Food and Drug Administration)
• Read the Food Label for Sodium! (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Reading Food Labels (American Diabetes Association)

• Research
• FDA to Encourage Science-Based Labeling and Competition for Healthier Dietary Choices (Food and Drug Administration)

• Organizations
• Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• Food and Drug Administration
• Food and Nutrition Information Center

• Newsletters/Print Publications
• Dietary Supplements/Food Labeling Electronic Newsletter (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition)

• Law and Policy
• Claims That Can Be Made for Conventional Foods and Dietary Supplements (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition)
• Organic Food Standards and Labels (Dept. of Agriculture)

• Children
• Figuring Out Food Labels (Nemours Foundation)
• Food Labels Tell the Story! (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

• Teenagers
• What Do Food Labels Really Say? (Nemours Foundation)