Food Labeling

In addition to facts on nutrition and ingredients, labels can provide readers with relevant, up-to-date information on the product’s environmental, social and regional sustainability. Labeling products with respect to the sustainability of their production, processing and transporting is a powerful tool for achieving more environmentally sound, economically viable, biologically diverse, and socially just communities. Part one of this report attempts to familiarize the readers with U.S. food labeling laws and regulations. Part two deals with the economics of food labeling; part 3 examines the issues surrounding organic foods labeling. Parts four and five look into the growing movement to label biotechnologically-engineered foods in the United States and in the European Union, and lastly, part 6 will be a comparison of the labeling issues for genetically engineered foods and organic foods, both in the United States and in the European Union.