FDA Reverses Stance on Kind Snack Bar Labels and Re-Evaluates Its “Healthy” Standard
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced this week that Kind LLC may label its snack bars as “healthy,” sort of. In 2015, the FDA warned Kind that several of its products were misbranded as “healthy,” and that such labeling falsely claimed that the snacks were low-fat or rich in anti-oxidants, among other things. The FDA’s letter to Kind threatened regulatory action if this and other alleged violations were not corrected. However, the FDA recently…