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This paper discusses that FDA and Congress created the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act in 1990, which has been amended since as well as having states implement their own actions to protect consumers from misleading information about contents, benefits, fats, sugars and other contents that may cause harm to the end user.

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"The FDA and the Bush Administration finally came to terms with the fact that the American consumer needs to know definitively what is in the food products he or she buys. The result was the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act. This Act provides FDA with specific authority to require nutrition labeling of most foods regulated by the Agency and to require that all nutrient content claims i.e. 'high fiber' 'low fat' etc. and health claims be consistent with agency ..."

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