Criticism surrounding the Grocery Manufacturing Association (GMA) and Food Marketing Institute's nutrition labeling initiative is indicative of heightened media and consumer scrutiny in the food industry.
The organizations presumably launched the initiative, which tasks food packaging companies to provide front-of-label product information about sodium, sugar, and calories, to ward off regulations. Despite the organizations' effort to inform transparently about nutritional content, such is the feeling of critics who cite other motives.
The organizations announced the initiative during what insiders are ...