Publisher's Synopsis
Increasingly, consumers desire information about the health, safety, environmental, and socioeconomic characteristics of food products; therefore, consumers must use food labels to select products that meet their needs and preferences. Due to this need for accurate, uniform labels, governments are faced with challenges on how to ensure labels are not misleading.
In response to consumer demand for information about the health, safety, environmental, and socioeconomic characteristics of food products, governments are challenged with the development of accurate, uniform labels that are not misleading. Innovations in Food Labeling provides information about the principles and requirements of food labeling and reviews the latest trends in this important area. Following an introduction on the evolution of food labeling, further chapters cover the Codex Alimentarius and food labeling, international trade agreements, nutrition labeling, allergies and food labels and environmental and social labels, among other topics.
