852 - The FDA's Proposed Food Labeling Changes

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

About this episode:

The FDA is responsible for labeling on food packaging, such as the ubiquitous black and white nutrition label. But consumers could soon see new labels on foods offering more information about nutrition in key areas like sodium, sugar, and saturated fat. In today's episode: the FDA's proposed changes for food labeling and new standards for using the term "healthy" in everything from product names to descriptions and marketing.

Guest:

Dr. Peter Lurie is the president and executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and a former Associate Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Host:

Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Show links and related content:

FDA Issues Proposed Rule on Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling—FDA
Use of the Term Healthy on Food Labeling—FDA
FDA Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat, and Salt Levels—The New York Times
Who can say it's healthy? The FDA has a new definition for food labels—NPR

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
0:05.9	where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges.
0:16.3	If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu.
0:23.8	That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:31.5	Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers.
0:34.1	Today, food labels and the FDA.
0:36.7	Dr. Peter Lurie is the president and executive director of the
0:39.8	Center for Science and the Public Interest and a former assistant commissioner at the FDA. He talks
0:45.1	with me about the FDA's role in food labels and a proposal to require specific labels on some foods,
0:51.8	identifying them as high in things like saturated fat or sugar.
0:55.6	We also talk about some changing guidelines around use of the term healthy in food packaging
1:00.6	and marketing.
1:01.8	Let's listen.
1:03.0	Dr. Peter Lurie, thank you so much for joining us on Public Health On Call.
1:06.1	How are you?
1:07.4	Fine.
1:07.7	Thank you.
1:08.1	Thanks for having me.
1:09.4	Wonderful.
1:10.1	So first of all, tell us a little bit about you and your work and what you're doing right now.
1:15.0	So I'm a physician, did clinical work for a short while, was an academic researcher for a short while.
1:21.7	And most of the rest of the time, I've been a public interest physician, you can say, working for public interest groups, first one called
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