Our Role in Offering Healthy Food Choices

This year IFT is in the forefront of discussions surrounding the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans issued by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) and the MyPlate initiative issued by the USDA. Officials from the White House, USDA, and IFT all discussed the public roll-out of the MyPlate initiative during a recent press conference at the IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo® in New Orleans.

The new program focuses on consumer messaging, with the…