
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 13, 1990                   TAG: 9007130737
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

FOOD-LABEL OVERHAUL PROPOSED

Consumer advocates and industry officials agree shoppers would find it easier to learn the nutrition content of nearly all foods in the grocery store under a new government proposal to overhaul food labeling.

Shoppers would be able to tell at a glance the amount of saturated fat, calories from fat, cholesterol and fiber. Serving sizes would be standardized, so nutrient comparisons would be more meaningful.

On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan outlined the latest effort to make sweeping changes in the system, to be published in 400 pages of the Federal Register next week.

The proposals would:

Require nutrition labeling for most packaged foods as well as fresh produce and seafood.

Require labels to include saturated fat, calories from fat, cholesterol and fiber.

Establish standardized serving sizes for 159 food categories.

Restrict use of the terms "no cholesterol," "low cholesterol" and "reduced cholesterol."

- Associated Press

by CNB