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California shoppers are about to see a quiet but sweeping change on grocery shelves: the familiar "sell by" date is being ...

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The consumer champion is now calling on the government to introduce a mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme. It ...

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Confused by food labels? A gastroenterologist explains how to read ingredient lists properly, why the first three ingredients ...

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