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There s a new push to mandate labels that health risks like high sugar or saturated fat are flagged on the front of packaged food.Nutrition advocates are petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to make this change.It s an issue that s expected to come up this Wednesday at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. If there was a healthy sticker on  stanley mugs the front of products, you wouldn t have to think about it,  said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition who researches food politics.She wasnt involved in the petition but points to research around how the front of package labels have worked in other countries. She says they ve seen small but significant drops in people buying foods that have those warning labels on them. You don t have to sit there and compute the numb stanley cup er of calories, or the percent of sugars, or any of those kinds of things most people don t understand food labels in the United States. They re way too complicated,  Nestle said.Some U.S. Companies have added voluntary labels on the front of packages showing things like calories and sodium but critics say these don t go far enough.The Consumer Brands Association said it supports fact-based labeling solutions but wants to ensure that changes made to front labels are backed up by research that confirms their benefit to consumers.The FDA told Scripps it plans to expand its research on front-o stanley cup f-package labeling as it monitors how it s being implemented around the world.     .Page-below > .RichText Nivb Man arrested after woman was tortured and beaten for months in Hillsborough County
MCALLEN, Texas  AP  鈥?Federal authorities have awarded a $145 million contract to a  stanley cup Texas company to build 6 miles  9. stanley cup 5 kilometers  of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Friday that SLSCO will begin cons stanley portugal truction of an 18-foot  5.5-meter  reinforced concrete levee wall in February in the agencys McAllen Station region. The company will also increase the height of existing fences.It will be the first section of President Donald Trumps border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings.The government recently completed construction of a 2-mile  3-kilometer , 30-foot tall  9-meter  section of fencing along the border in California.Trump has been ramping up anti-immigration rhetoric heading into Tuesdays midterm elections and has ordered troops to the border to meet a caravan of Central American migrants slowly traveling through Mexico.