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“I think front of pack labelling has more potential to have a bigger impact on consumers,” he said.
Some changes have already been made, analysts say.
“Carbonated soft drinks have been on the decline before any of this happened,” said Darren Seifer, an analyst at The NPD Group, a market research company. “It might not make it exponentially greater, but it may help sustain it.”
The largest US chocolate maker, the Hershey Company, said it “will work diligently to make the necessary updates to our Nutrition Facts labels as requested by the FDA.”
In the United States more than one-third of adults and about 17 per cent of youth aged 2 to 19 are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death. The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the US was $147 billion in 2008, according to Centers for Disease Control.
The FDA estimated the cost to industry of updating the labels at about $2 billion and the benefit to consumers at between $20 billion to $30 billion.