NESTLE IS MISLEADING CONSUMERS, FDA SAYS

NESTLE MISLEADS ON NUTRITIONAL AND HEALTH
BENEFITS CLAIMS ON ITS PRODUCTS, THE FDA SAYS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swiss food giant Nestle made misleading claims about the health benefits of some children's beverages, U.S. regulators said in warning letters these days. Another consumer packaged goods company is facing questions from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about its marketing of health claims. Earlier this year, the FDA sent a warning letter to General Mills for claiming that Cheerios is clinically proven to lower cholesterol, and now Nestle - the world’s biggest food company - was questioned by the federal agency about the company's use of nutrient claims for some of its products. The FDA, said Nestle made unauthorized nutrient content claims on certain Juicy Juice products marketed for children under age 2. The agency said that the Nestle's Juicy Juice is labelled with "no sugar added" and Nestle's Boost Kid Essentials Nutritionally Complete Drink, is promoted as a "medical food" but did not meet requirements for that type of claim, so it is falsely promoted as such, the FDA said.

The federal agency also points out that content labeling for Nestle’s orange tangerine and grape juices which claimed to be 100 percent juice, and the labeling claim that the Juicy Juice drinks help “support brain development” in young children are “misleading”, the agency said. Regarding the Nestle’s Boost Kid Essentials Nutritionally Complete Drink, the FDA points out that the company’s promotion of the drinks as “medical food” suitable for treating the medical condition of “failure to thrive” in newborns and for “pre/post surgery, injury or trauma, chronic illnesses” do not meet federal standards for those claims. By law, medical food is “a food which is formulated to be consumed or administered enterally under the supervision of a physician and which is intended for the specific dietary management of a disease or condition for which distinctive nutritional requirements, based on recognized scientific principles, are established by medical evaluation,” the FDA said. The Boost beverages fail to meet that standard but are still marketed as such. “It is your responsibility to ensure that all of your products are in compliance with the laws and regulations enforced by FDA.” “Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in regulatory actions without further notice, such as seizure and/or injunction,” the FDA wrote in the letters.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

The four common faults are not present in these great souls. These faults are namely illusion which is mistaking something which is not true as real, carelessness or instability of mind, imperfection of the senses, as in the seeing of mirages and the usual cheating tendency which is to insist you know something when you do not. In this regard, the great souls who are well versed in the highest truths and have knowledge of the scriptures are free from these four faults. They are by nature equipped with good conduct and completely devoid of enviousness, enmity, anger and hypocrisy. The profound truthful words of such teachers are regarded as “evidence”.

Śrīla Bhakti Promode Puri Mahārāja :
“Essence of Pure Devotion” - Part V ‘Preaching and Self-Practice’
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