Jeff Novick's Updated Label Reading Guidelines

Jeff recently posted this to the official McDougall message boards:

My Guidelines For Evaluating The New Nutrition Facts Lab

by JeffN » Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:26 pm

From the FDA

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/changes-nutrition-facts-label

"The updated label appears on the majority of food packages. Manufacturers with $10 million or more in annual sales were required to update their labels by January 1, 2020; manufacturers with less than $10 million in annual food sales were required to update their labels by January 1, 2021. Manufacturers of most single-ingredient sugars, such as honey and maple syrup, and certain cranberry products have until July 1, 2021 to make the changes. The compliance dates are still in place, but the FDA is working cooperatively with manufacturers to meet the new Nutrition Facts label requirements."

This means we should now see the new food label on the majority of products. As such, I have again updated the Label Reading documents. I have also added in a new form of the worksheet, which makes it easer to walk through reading a label.

Label Reading has never been easier!

If you like, you can download them here.

1) The Label Reading Guidelines
https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0-0vN3bfGANsCaaKaVJGniCYQ#Label_Reading_Guidelines_2021

2) The Label Reading Grid
https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0puxF4GIIikAgsUCrsOJnOxEg#2021_New_Label_Reading_Grid

3) The Label Reading Worksheet'
https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0EMNum-UA4DObP12elx2lRLAg#Label_Reading__Practice__2021

In Health
Jeff