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EPISODE · Jun 20, 2014 · 32 MIN

Food Labels and What 'Natural' Really Means

from Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show) · host WNYC

On this week’s Please Explain, Urvashi Rangan, director of the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports, discusses the findings from Consumer Reports' new survey about food labels, and explains what terms like "natural," "fair trade," "genetically engineered," mean. She’ll explain the rules for what food labels can claim, how they can be misleading, what information is missing from labels, and efforts to reform food labels.

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