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Most imported foods have inaccurate, misleading info: agency
Most imported foods have inaccurate, misleading info: agency
Claims on the label may not be entirely the truth
Mike Lloyd/Vancouver Sun Sep 16, 2011 07:19:03 AM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - If you want to know what's in it, you read the label. But government testing shows a majority of imported foods come with inaccurate information or misleading health claims.
Over the past three years, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency found 74 to 84 per cent of imported foods made non-compliant nutritional claims, non-permitted health claims, inaccurate nutritional declarations, contained prohibited ingredients, or didn't meet implied expectations.
One nutritionist tells the Vancouver Sun the results only reinforce perceptions about imported foods.
"I think people read [labels] assuming that there is more policing of that information than there is," Theresa Albert tells the paper.
Skeptical shoppers tell News1130 it makes them even more wary:
"Well yeah, things like monosodium glutamate can be listed as 'natural flavours,'" says Bobby. "They can hide things. They can change them."
Some examples of inaccurate labelling on imported foods include rye bread with no rye in it, wing steak labelled as T-bone, and products with 'no preservatives' containing preservatives |
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發表於 2011-9-16 07:11
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