Are you reading the Nutrition Facts label correctly? I'm quoted in this nice, short piece on common misunderstandings about the label, written by @debbieharry.bsky.social for WebMD's health news section Nourish: www.webmd.com/diet/news/20....
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Wow! Just came across this very positive review of my book that was published last year by @susanaramirez.bsky.social , and it's in very good company with books by @haushoferl.bsky.social and @charlottebiltekoff.bsky.social . Definitely agree these three books read well together!
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Selfishly wondering whether my book on the history of FDA food labeling might one day help people piece together how we got here.
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Check out this fun conversation I had with historian David Parsons about "MAHA Moms" and food politics past and present on his podcast, Nostalgia Trap, "Ep 416 - America Eats Itself w/Xaq Frohlich": www.patreon.com/posts/131914.... (Also on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and YouTube).
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Shared my doubts with a @nytimes.com journalist about how much I think the FDA’s new front-of-package labels are going to improve consumers’ health, quoted in his article here, “F.D.A. Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat and Salt Levels”: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/h....
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The @fda.gov finally published its rules on the new definition for "healthy" labels: www.fda.gov/food/hfp-con.... They provide this great graphic on what it changes. For context, I wrote a piece on this a couple of years ago: cla.auburn.edu/news/article....
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Looking forward to giving a book talk in two weeks at the "Feast and Famine" lecture series of NYU's Nutrition and Food Studies Department, one of the top #foodstudies programs in the world. If you're in the NYC area, come check it out! (DM me for RSVP details.)
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I was interviewed this past weekend on a cool food history show, "Eating the Past," on Utah Public Radio. The 5-minute episode is now available for you to listen to here: www.upr.org/show/eating-...
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I wrote this short everyday object piece about the Nutrition Facts label for @us.theconversation.com : theconversation.com/nutrition-fa....
Check it out! You'll learn some surprising facts about this familiar food label.
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Hey everyone! Take advantage of this big UC Press sale (today through May 10) and get a 40% discount off my book, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age: www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520....
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OTD in 1994: compliance date for the new Nutrition Facts label required by @US_FDA on all packaged foods. To raise awareness among kids it launched KIDSNET with this PSA, “Curious George checks out the label”:
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Read about it in my book! #FromLabelToTable
This week the FCC required your ISP to provide these "Broadband Facts" labels. Check out this Time Magazine article I wrote about the tech industry's problematic use of the "Nutrition Facts" label as the go-to model for consumer transparency: time.com/6964509/broa...
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Really liked this review of my book: notevenpast.org/review-of-fr.... I particularly appreciate the author's framing of Nutrition Facts as an "everyday technology" and her consideration of how my book might be used to explore similar or contrasting stories in other countries.
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If you missed it, here is the YouTube recording of my BHC book talk: www.youtube.com/live/Rbu2j0K.... Thank you Paula de la Cruz for putting together this Business History Conference book series, and Arwen Mohun and Jen Black for a great discussion of my @ucpress.bsky.social book.
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Nothing says Happy Valentine's like a podcast on food labeling policy! Check out my interview with Norbert Wilson at the Duke World Food Policy Center: wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcasts/fro.... We talk about my book, and how history can inform present-day food policy.
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I'll be giving a book talk next week (2/13) for the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics and the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy: law.ucla.edu/events/xaq-f....
Looking forward to talking with those communities about the interdisciplinary worlds of food law and food studies.
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Save the date on my BHC book interview (Feb. 19 on Twitter, Mar. 1 on YouTube), announced today in the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social community newsletter, The Exchange: mailchi.mp/thebhc/the-e.... It's a cool new series they're developing and I'm excited to be first up on it!
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If you purchased my book on Amazon and liked it, can you do me a big favor and post a positive (5-star) review of it there?: www.amazon.com/Label-Table-.... (If you bought it elsewhere you could help by reviewing it on Goodreads!) Thank you in advance!
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FUN FACT: On this date in 1993, the @fda.gov published final rules for the new “Nutrition Facts” panel that would appear on all American packaged food products. [Image source: FDA Consumer 29 (June 1995): 7. See, From Label to Table, p. 150: www.amazon.com/Label-Table-...
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There's still time for you to buy any of these books, including my book, as a Christmas gift for that curious food intellectual or foodie in your family: www.amazon.com/Label-Table-....
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Last month @ucpress.bsky.social was featuring its newly published food books, so I wrote this post for their blog discussing how my book gives important background on FDA and food labeling issues under debate today: www.ucpress.edu/blog/64120/l.... Short, but sweet. Check it out!
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Very excited to be featured today on one of my favorite history of medicine blogs, Nursing Clio: nursingclio.org/2023/11/29/f.... I really appreciated the great questions by food studies scholar, Emily Contois. Check it out!
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Found this article interesting about different "nutrition facts" style labeling initiatives in the digital tech industry: www.forbes.com/sites/gregli....
If information politics + nutrition facts design interests you, def read Chapter 5 of my book!: www.amazon.com/Label-Table-....
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At the @fda.gov Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling Virtual Public Meeting now, going to contribute (very brief) comments to it in a little bit, drawing on my research on 60+ years of nutrition labeling history.
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Really appreciate the great "Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know" podcast the Auburn College of Liberal Arts put together on my book. Check it out!: cla.auburn.edu/news/article....
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Check out this interview I did with Nathan Hopson on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and learn more about my @ucpress.bsky.social book, how it got started and why it's a very American tale: newbooksnetwork.com/from-label-t....
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Ooh! Thank you @ucpress.bsky.social for featuring my book on your homepage today, one of its "delectable" books to read: www.ucpress.edu.
A blog post about my book to be coming out soon for their "On and Beyond the Dining Table" series: www.ucpress.edu/page/the-din....
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And if your curious about the history behind the Nutrition Facts label, enjoy this podcast episode I did recently with @feministkelly.bsky.social on Unsung History, discussing my book about it: www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/nutrition-fa...
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Book cover of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age by Law Frohlich
My book, From Label to Table (UC Press), is now officially available to order!: www.amazon.com/Label-Table-....
How did Nutrition Facts come to appear on millions of everyday American household products?Order the book and learn more about this important history! #FromLabelToTable
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