Natural Flavoring - Is it safe for my child?

Parents of milk allergic children are often concerned about the ingredients of natural flavoring. The manufacturing of natural flavoring can include dairy ingredients. The legal definition of natural flavorings, as employed by the FDA, states that they can include “dairy products, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional”. Parents then need to [...]

FDA Mulls Changes to Allergy Labeling on Foods

TUESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) — Responding to concerns that food labels aren’t doing enough to alert consumers to the presence of allergens, or that the labels are just plain confusing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is hosting a public hearing Tuesday on what it can do to improve things.
“If you go down the [...]