FDA Commissioner Announces New Nutrition Policies.

reports that “the Trump Administration will encourage the food industry to reduce the salt in processed foods and will take steps to overhaul some food labels to make them easier to understand, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced” yesterday. The agency “will also move forward with Obama-era plans to require calorie labeling on restaurant menus and new ‘Nutrition Facts’ panels on food products, two rules the agency had delayed.” The Post adds, “The wait had alarmed consumer watchdogs and public health advocates, who have long feared that nutrition would suffer under a White House that has championed industry deregulation and criticized concerns about child obesity.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/29/one-year-after-delaying-obamas-food-reforms-trumps-fda-says-it-will-embrace-them/