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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

Food labels must be accurate, says NZFSA (New Zealand Food Safety Authority/ 4/16)

FSA offers new training (MeatNews.com/ 4/09)

Clean labels: A growing but not yet global trend (Food Production Daily/ 4/03)

US holds public meeting ahead of Codex (Food Production Daily/ 4/02)

Public Meeting To Address Codex Committee On Food Labeling (USDA/FSIS/ 3/30)

What's really in that wine? (Los Angeles Times/ 3/28)

Codex labelling committee to discuss GM, organics (Food Production Daily/ 3/26)

Codex Committee on Food Labelling to meet in Canada (Food Standards Agency/ 3/21)

Public want food 'traffic lights' (BBC News / 2/27)

Food labels branded 'misleading' (BBC News/ 2/15)

“Food Industry Protection Act” Threatens Hundreds of State and Local Food Safety and Labeling Laws, Says CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest / 7/26)

Tight controls on food labelling (BBC News / 5/16)

House Mulls Bill on Food Label Removal (New York Times from AP / 3/3)

Bill May Undo States' Rules on Safe Food (New York Times / 2/28)

Debating the future of food labelling (UK Food Standards Agency / 2/16)

Labelling surveys published (UK Food Standards Agency / 2/13)

Proposed Rule: Cochineal Extract and Carmine Declaration (Federal Register / 1/30)

Food Labeling; Nutrient Content Claims, Definition of the Term: ``Healthy'' (Federal Register / 1/11)

Food label law gives allergy sufferers a break (Chicago Sun Times / 12/27)