New restaurant menu labeling requirements took effect Dec. 1 or maybe not. Forty-eight hours ahead of that date, the Food and Drug Administration issued a notice “clarifying ” that Dec. 1 is now the ...

In 1850, President Zachary Taylor consumed contaminated fruit and milk at a fundraising event, which ultimately led to his death. This event, as well as many other food illness events, encouraged ...

Food safety has become a data-management challenge as much as an operational one. Restaurants are being asked to track more ...

“As consumers shop for healthier food, they encounter confusion and frustration,” former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan remarked in 1990. Dr. Sullivan was lamenting the ...

The study also accounted for the impact of food labeling policies on industry responses in the form of product reformulation by food and beverage manufacturers. For example, the mandatory addition of ...

A trial at English secondary schools of alternative food labeling—which displayed the number of minutes of physical activity needed to burn off calories—reduced the purchase of sugary foods by a small ...

In a study of popular U.K. restaurant chains, establishments that voluntarily labeled their menus with nutritional information served items with less fat and less salt than items served by restaurants ...

More than nine years ago, landmark legislation was signed in California to put calorie counts on restaurant menus and menu boards. California was the first state to pass this measure that, at the time ...