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By Fred, February 9, 2010 8:00 am

On February 5, 2010, the NY Times ran a piece outlining thoughts at the FDA of re-evaluating the portion sizes found on food labels.

For those of us who follow a specialty diet; the issues with food labels are no surprise.  While we are all hunting through to understand what items may indicate wheat, gluten, shellfish, peanuts, tree-nuts, dairy or soy, most of us have learned to ignore the seemingly random aspect of portion size.  One bag of chips may be 2 servings, another 1, another may be fractional.  Bags from within a product family may have different portion sizes by weight and not be internally consistent.

One other item that is near and dear to those of us who await any gluten-labeling guidelines is that the FDA is no better at dealing with this issue than any other.  The article states midway through, that;

The F.D.A. has vowed to re-evaluate serving sizes before. Amid concern over obesity, it said in 2005 that it was considering changes. That effort languished, but has now been revived by the Obama administration.

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By Fred, January 21, 2010 10:16 pm

Find Zach Becker at Gluten Free Raleigh’s coverage of today’s hearing against Great Specialty Products [dot] com here.

NBC News 17 in Raleigh covered the story as well.

Here is a longer article by the Raleigh News and Observer from this morning, published after the State Attorney General’s office made their initial filings public.  We appreciate the reference.

And again, note our original post on GSP’s products, our subsequent post, and this post at the GFCF Cookbook.