Health advocacy group petitions FDA to create healthy food labeling system to better inform grocery shoppers: NewsTarget.com

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) says that consumers can easily be confused by health logos such as Kraft's "Sensible Solution" and Pepsi's "heart-check" because each one uses a different nutrition criteria, so the health advocacy group is petitioning the FDA for a nationally accepted set of symbols.

The 31-page petition states that a universal set of easy-to-use nutrition symbols will complement the current nutrition facts label, and is supported by 14 researchers and physicians.

The petition points out that the agency could use the U.K. and Sweden as models since they already have similar systems in place. Under the U.K. system, foods get green, yellow and red dots on the label to denote whether they respectively contain low, medium or high levels of things like fat, sugar and salt. The Swedish system uses a green keyhole-shaped symbol to indicate the healthiest foods within a given food category. The CSPI also suggests the agency solicit comments from the American public to decide what route to take.

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