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•Use the Nutrition Facts Labels to help you
make informed choices.
•Not all foods have labels. Exceptions: fresh
fruit and vegetables, raw meat and poultry,
foods prepared or processed at the store,
foods that contain very few nutrients.
•Canada introduced a new system for
providing nutrition information on food labels
in 2003
•As of Dec 2005, most companies are
required to provide accurate food labels to
consumers.