There are several proposed changes to the Nutrition Facts panel on products sold in the United States and Canada.
Some key changes included in the proposal are to remove ‘calories from fat’; declare ‘added sugars’; keep the mandatory requirement to list calcium and iron but make listing vitamins A and C voluntary; add a mandatory requirement to list vitamin D and potassium; update the reference values used to calculate the per cent of daily value of nutrients; update the reference value for sodium from 2,400 mg to 2,300 mg and make ‘calories’ more prominent on labels.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is also proposing changing labels to better reflect actual consumption. For example, several labels on single-serving products have nutritional information for only a portion of the product, although most consumers would likely consume the entire product.
The FDA is proposing to amend the definition of a single-serving container; require dual-column labeling for certain containers; update and modify several reference amounts customarily consumed; and make technical amendments to various aspects of the serving size regulations.
