What’s New with the Nutrition Facts Label: Updates for Nutrition Educators

FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), the Federal agency responsible for the Nutrition Facts label, as well as the nutrition education and outreach related to the label, will share background and an in-depth tour of the updated Nutrition Facts label.  CFSAN staff will also share results of consumer formative research that shaped nutrition education messages and provide information on an evidence-based consumer education campaign on the Nutrition Facts label and resources available to educate community and school-based audiences on the label. 

Presenters

• Maya Maroto, EdD, MPH, RD, FDA, Public Health Educator, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• Kathleen Yu, MPH, Social Scientist, FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Dietetic Intern Learning Opportunities

This presentation will provide Dietetic Interns tools that they need to conduct educational outreach on the Nutrition Facts label.

Education Benefits

Participants of this webinar will receive 1 CEU for live attendance. The webinar provides information on the following:

SNEB Nutrition Educator Competencies

• 1.4. Explain how to use food labeling to evaluate the appropriateness of a food.
• 5.1. Describe the roles of government agencies in regulating the manufacturing, labeling and advertising of individual foods and dietary supplements
• 5.4. Describe the history and current roles of governmental and nongovernmental organizations that develop and implement nutrition education programs and related health promotion or food security activities.

CDR Performance Indicators

• 6.3.8 Interprets, analyzes, synthesizes and critically appraises research findings.
• 9.4.2 Selects and uses appropriate content and teaching methods to meet individual and group needs
• 12.1.1 Promotes nutrition programs and resources to address issues of food security, nutritional health and overall health and wellness.

CDR Learning Need Codes

• 4030 Dietary guidelines, DRIs, Choose My Plate, food labeling
• 4100 Social Marketing
• 6000 Education, Training, and Counseling