With just days left in the Biden administration, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday unveiled its highly anticipated proposal to require manufacturers to display nutrition information on the front of packaged foods.
The proposal is several years in the making. The agency in 2022 announced its intention to develop a rule on such labeling during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf had said that the proposal was on his list of priorities before the end of his tenure.
The FDA cites the growing prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and some types of cancers as creating a need for the rule.
