The Food and Drug Administration published on Monday two proposed rules that would make further changes to updates to the Nutrition Facts panel that the agency proposed last year. One would mandate a percent Daily Value declaration for added sugars and define the term Percent Daily Value (%DV) in a footnote on the label. The other proposed a reopening of the comment period for 60 days for the sole purpose of inviting public comments on two consumer studies that FDA conducted related to added sugars declaration and the %DV footnote.
The new rules were based on the report from the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and the results from the two consumer studies, which were also released on Monday.
The Dietary Guidelines report recommended that Americans should limit added sugar intake to less than 10 percent of dairy calories. Based on that report, FDA has recommended a Daily Value for added sugars of 50 grams for people aged four and older, with a Daily Value of 25 grams for children between the ages of one and three. FDA also proposed a mandatory declaration of percent Daily Value for added sugars in the Nutrition Facts panel to help consumers understand their added sugars intake in the context of their total diet.
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