Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
Weekend reading: The FDA on food label dietary guidance statements
The draft guidance provides the agency’s thinking about the use of such statements, including recommendations that products contain a meaningful amount of the food, or category of foods, that is the subject of the statement, and that they also not exceed certain amounts of saturated fat, sodium and added sugars.
Translation: The idea here is to make sure that packages making health claims can back them up, or disclose relevant information. This will automatically eliminate health claims from lots of products (see post on “healthy”).
The FDA is proposing something like this.
Here are the relevant documents:
- Draft guidance: Questions and Answers About Dietary Guidance Statements in Food Labeling
- The Draft Guidance Document
- The Federal Register Notice
- Labeling & Nutrition Guidance Documents & Regulatory Information
- Constituent Udpate: FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Dietary Guidance Statements on Food Labels
This is all open for public comment now. Here’s where to submit comments.
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