“It's a shot across the bow that food marketers are going to have to stop using unsubstantiated health claims as marketing tools.”

MARION NESTLE, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition at New York University on the federal government's decision to fine Dannon $21 million for exaggerating the health claims of its Activia line [via USA Today]

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