New Requirements For Most Meats

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announces it will require labels on most meats to include calorie and other nutritional information, beginning in 2012. Rudy Macklin, director of the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports, says it's a great idea that's a long time coming. Starting in January of 2012, 40 of the most popular cuts of beef, pork & poultry will have to have labels that detail caloric content, plus grams from fat and saturated fat and sodium. Macklin say this is just what today's health-cons

cious consumers need. Macklin says consumers need to know that the meats they commonly buy can be more fattening than they might suspect, and this new USDA regulation will help them with that. (Macklin says it's a very good decision on the part of the USDA)