OTHER NEWS - Feb. 26, 1992

Food Processors Can’t Meet Deadline: The nation’s food processors told the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration that they cannot meet a May 8, 1993, deadline for changing food labels. They asked the secretary of health and human services, who oversees the FDA, to extend the deadline for a year. Various segments of the food industry also objected to the FDA’s proposed label reforms, saying they would eliminate such products as “light” ice cream and “low fat” cereals and would hinder development of nutritional foods.