Clarifying Label Claims

A few weeks ago I wrote about the Smart Choices program, which is a voluntary program that allows food manufacturers to place the Smart Choices label on their food products. Not all nutrition experts agree on the foods that have been allowed to have the label, such as sugary Froot Loops and high-fat mayonnaise, and critics say it's just a way to sell products and not really designed to help people improve their diets.

This week the FDA says they'll come up with some guidelines for these types of programs, so that food companies will have to give you any bad news along with any good news about the nutritional information of their products. The new guidelines should be set up next year.