Standardizing our Food Labels & Making our Food Ingredients HEALTHIER!!!

Way TOO OFTEN, foods sold to us have the following UNSTANDARDIZED labeling problems. It's high time to STANDARDIZE the following: 1) EXPIRATION DATE DISPLAY: UNLIKE some canned foods which CLEARLY display an expiration date, many others bear a CODE (series of numbers & letters) which does NOT CLEARLY indicate expiration date (which requires purchasing product then contacting producer to inquire what the expiration date BEHIND the code is...!) 2) APPEARANCE Too many food products still carry a Nutritional Facts & Ingredients specification displayed in very SMALL PRINT requiring a MAGNIFYING GLASS...! Print should be STANDARDIZED in FONT SIZE & MATERIAL it's printed on (e.g. it should NOT be printed on CLEAR material which makes visibility/reading HARD if not IMPOSSIBLE...)! Also, food producers should ENSURE that INK used works well on SPECIFIC MATERIAL (chosen by manufacturer to print expiration date on) & does NOT wear out or smudge to where expiration date CANNOT be read clearly! 3) UNHEALTHY FOOD INGREDIENTS (which can be MINIMIZED!!) IN SOLD FOOD PRODUCTS a) MANDATE that ALL food manufacturers produce HEALTHIER products (with FAR LESS-to- -NO HARMFUL ingredients, such as SODIUM, in them). High Sodium intake has been shown HARMFUL to health (raising blood pressure which leads to heart attacks/stroke, etc...). Unfortunately today, too FEW food products on the market have LOW sodium! Particularly, canned, packaged & smoked ones! Salt is a preservative of product freshness but can certainly be used in FAR LOWER quantities!!! Let an INDEPENDENT (non-governmental) body of scientists conduct research as to minimal quantities (which are NOT to be exceeded) required for product freshness! b) Reduction of AMOUNT of SUGAR content in sold foods is ALSO a MUST! Sugar turns into FAT!!! Fat is the major cause for OBESITY (& subsequent overweight-health-related diseases)!!! c) MANDATE that WHITE sugar is BANNED or MINIMIZED! Instead, MANDATE the use of the FAR HEALTHIER RAW SUGARS (such as brown sugar & other natural sugars: palm sugar, cactus sugar, etc...)!!! NOT White (=BLEACHED) sugar!!! Also, BAN use of ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS (which carry UNHEALTHY CHEMICALS!)-such as: Sweet-&-Low; Equal, Splenda, etc...In research, they've been ALL shown to cause HEART DISEASE & STOKE!!! In order to sweeten a bitter/sour food product, it should be sweetened JUST enough to eliminate its original flavor (again, to be determined by INDEPENDENT/NON-GOVERNMENTAL body of expert/scientist panel's taste-testing). Otherwise, COMPLETELY-NATURAL products (with NO sugar additives AT ALL!) should be ALSO made available for consumers who like/can handle original food's sour or bitter taste or those who wish to CONTROL the sugar content in their foods BY THEMSELVES (by ADDING it THEMSELVES, to foods-NOT have manufacturer add it FOR THEM, in advance...)! 3) STOP Juice manufacturers from MISLEADING consumers & CAPITALIZING on it through DECEITFUL Advertising!!! This point is best illustrated through an example: when buying fruit juice, often 1-3 (or so) fruits are featured on product's packaging name& image (picture of only those few 1-3 fruits-as in a label which reads: Mango, Passion Fruit juice, displaying (mostly) picture of those 2 particular fruits! However, in REALITY, truth is that almost ALL juices (with NO EXCEPTION) use the CHEAPER & LEAST nutritious APPLE or GRAPE juices as sweeteners in a FAR HIGHER quantity than all other fruit components (combined, sometimes...)! Yet, manufacturers will MISLEAD/DECEIVE you, the consumer, in NOT showing it on product's picture or reflecting it in product's name! Furthermore, if you read the ingredients-they are always listed in order of content/quantity-from Greater to lesser, with Apple/Grape juice , almost INVARIABLY, listed FIRST...!!! It's time to call manufacturers on it & require that in cases like this, the name their product: just plainly: "FRUIT JUICE" & NOT X, X & Y or X, Y & Z SPECIFIC-FRUIT juice only (when there's evidently also apple/grape juice)! Same applies to product's picture-it should reflect ALL the fruits included in the product (with NO exception!) & NOT ONLY SOME!!! Thank you for reading & adding your signature in support. May this petition be successful to achieve longer & healthier lives (=with less to no Doctors & less to no Cost involved for us all)!!

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