Prevention Institute's new study shows that 84% of the food industry's ‘better for you' products containing front of package labels fail to meet basic nutrition standards. Read coverage from Time, Marion Nestle's Food Politics blog, and others.
Proposed food labels prompt a battle. Stacy Finz, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/28/2011
Study Says Health Claims on Kids' Food Are Overrated. Marion Nestle, The Atlantic, 1/21/2011
Study: 84% of Nutrition Labels On Kids' Foods "Misleading." Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones, 1/20/2011
More Calls to Overhaul Deceptive Front-of-Package Labeling. Meredith Melnick, TIME, 1/20/2011
Food industry FAIL: Foods promoted as healthy for kids-surprise!-are mostly not. Tom Laskaway, Grist, 1/19/2011
Front labels on food for children called deceptive. Stacy Finz, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/20/2011
Junk Food Armageddon Redux, or Why Froot Loops Isn't a Health Food. Melanie Warner, CBS Business Net, 1/20/2011
Surprise! Most "better-for-you" kids' foods aren't. Marion Nestle, Food Politics, 1/19/2011
'Healthy' kids' foods usually aren't, study finds. Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, 1/19/2011
In study, majority of kid's foods marketed as "good for you" actually weren't. Michelle Brandt, Stanford Scope, 1/19/2011
Kid Foods Labeled 'Better for You' Often Aren't. Mary Rothschild, Food Safety News, 1/19/2011
Parents, beware: These kid-friendly foods claim to be healthy, but they're not. Lylah Amphonse, Yahoo Shine News, 1/19/2011
