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Your labels? FDA wants to keep testing how you read them

Ever wonder why you grab one thing off the shelf and not another? The FDA is asking to keep testing how you actually read food labels.

By Foodie Pundit Newsroom - Published - Updated - Section: Policy Regulation

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Key points

  • FDA asked OMB on September 11, 2026, to renew a generic qualitative research clearance that includes food and dietary supplements.
  • The supplied FDA notice does not change a label, menu, ingredient rule, grocery price, farm practice or freight cost.
  • No company, trade group, lobbyist, contract recipient, award amount or ownership interest is identified in the sole record provided.
  • OMB’s disposition of the information-collection request is the next documented institutional gate; the supplied record gives no decision or comment-close date.

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