The food label, I like to say, is the town square where we play out the issues of interest to Americans having anything to do with diet and health. The same goes for food advertising. This month, crucial developments in three different label and advertising squabbles prove the point: First, an interesting mix of bad news for a company and good news for everyone else who makes food claims in advertising. Second, encouragement for those who claim it's misleading consumers to call high fructose corn syrup "corn sugar".
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