NY Times: FDA Re-Evaluating Portion Sizes
Comments (0) 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.
