Guest guest Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Hi All, Canada will have stringent food label requirements soon. It seemed to be a positive move. Low-carbohydrate diets were not accorded consideration. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/food/foodlabels.html Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@... __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Poking fun at the title; I 've found so many errors in the labelling I don't believe it anyway. They are hard to get off. Regards. [ ] Tough food labels Hi All,Canada will have stringent food label requirements soon. It seemed to be a positivemove. Low-carbohydrate diets were not accorded consideration.http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/food/foodlabels.htmlAl Pater, PhD; email: old542000@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Poking fun at the title; I 've found so many errors in the labelling I don't believe it anyway. They are hard to get off. Regards. [ ] Tough food labels Hi All,Canada will have stringent food label requirements soon. It seemed to be a positivemove. Low-carbohydrate diets were not accorded consideration.http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/food/foodlabels.htmlAl Pater, PhD; email: old542000@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Labels can contain a lot of misinformation and, unfortunately, you have to trust the manufacturer unless you can test in your own private laboratory. We have discussed before the sneaky " Fat free " stuff that is loaded with mono- and diglycerides (Promise Margarine) Recently, while waiting at a checkout of an international grocery store, I looked at the label of a Korean version of a ChocoPie (chocolate wafer with marshmallow filling). The ingredient list was translated into Russian, English, French, Greek, and Arabic. I don't know about the Arabic, but the Russian, English, and French were fairly consistent. However, the Greek version listed ingredients that were not in the other translations. It looked like it had been lifted from a similar product. A Greek person would have to read one of the other languages to notice the discrepancy in the list of ingredients. By the way, the new rules for reporting trans fat in U.S. labels becomes effective in 2006. Will you be able to trust a label that says " zero grams of trans fat " ? You have to remember that if a SERVING (which can be arbitrarily small) has less than 0.5 grams of trans fat, the number can be rounded to zero. Bon Appetit! Tony > > Hi All, > > Canada will have stringent food label requirements soon. It seemed to be a positive > move. Low-carbohydrate diets were not accorded consideration. > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/food/foodlabels.html > > Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@y... > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Labels can contain a lot of misinformation and, unfortunately, you have to trust the manufacturer unless you can test in your own private laboratory. We have discussed before the sneaky " Fat free " stuff that is loaded with mono- and diglycerides (Promise Margarine) Recently, while waiting at a checkout of an international grocery store, I looked at the label of a Korean version of a ChocoPie (chocolate wafer with marshmallow filling). The ingredient list was translated into Russian, English, French, Greek, and Arabic. I don't know about the Arabic, but the Russian, English, and French were fairly consistent. However, the Greek version listed ingredients that were not in the other translations. It looked like it had been lifted from a similar product. A Greek person would have to read one of the other languages to notice the discrepancy in the list of ingredients. By the way, the new rules for reporting trans fat in U.S. labels becomes effective in 2006. Will you be able to trust a label that says " zero grams of trans fat " ? You have to remember that if a SERVING (which can be arbitrarily small) has less than 0.5 grams of trans fat, the number can be rounded to zero. Bon Appetit! Tony > > Hi All, > > Canada will have stringent food label requirements soon. It seemed to be a positive > move. Low-carbohydrate diets were not accorded consideration. > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/food/foodlabels.html > > Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@y... > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 I feel the same way. Sometimes, it seems there are more errors than accuracy's. It's hard to believe the labels at all! jwwright wrote: Poking fun at the title; I 've found so many errors in the labelling I don't believe it anyway. They are hard to get off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 I feel the same way. Sometimes, it seems there are more errors than accuracy's. It's hard to believe the labels at all! jwwright wrote: Poking fun at the title; I 've found so many errors in the labelling I don't believe it anyway. They are hard to get off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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