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.”
by Marion Nestle
Jan
22
2026
Canada’s new food warning label!
A reader, Doug Williams, alerted me to Canada’s new food warning label. Even better, he followed it up with a photo.
Here’s what the warning label looks like up close.
Canada based the label on extensive consultation.
For most foods, the warning label is required when sugar, saturated fat, or sodium reach 15% of the Daily Value. For saturated fat, for example:
There are lots of exceptions. But the warning label is easy to spot.
The FDA is supposedly working on a warning label. I can’t wait to see what the MAHA FDA comes up with.
Canada’s is better. The ones in Latin America are better yet. Let’s hope.
Resources
- Healthy Eating Strategy
- Front-of-package nutrition labelling backgrounder
- Front-of-package nutrition symbol labelling guide for industry
- Front-of-package labelling consumer research and consultation
- Summary of amendments published in the Canada Gazette, Part II: Nutrition symbols, other labelling provisions, vitamin D and hydrogenated fats or oils
- Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (Nutrition Symbols, Other Labelling Provisions, Vitamin D and Hydrogenated Fats or Oils)
- Marketing Authorization to Permit a Lower Calcium Threshold for Exemptions from the Requirement for Prepackaged Products to Carry a Nutrition Symbol in the Case of Cheese, Yogurt, Kefir and Buttermilk
- Interim policy statements on certain front-of-package nutrition labelling requirements
