The Food and Drug Administration announced a new proposal Tuesday that would require food and drink manufacturers to place nutrition labels on the front of their products instead of the back.

which are part of a government-wide effort in combatting the nation’s chronic disease crisis,” the FDA said in a statement Tuesday. The proposed label, also called the nutrition info box ...

All things considered, it’s at least as likely to make health outcomes worse as it is to make most people healthier.

The new label, a small black-and-white box similar ... or cares for someone with a chronic disease that is due, in part, to the food we eat,” Dr. Robert Califf, the commissioner of the F.D.A ...

in part, to the food we eat. It is time we make it easier for consumers to glance, grab and go. Adding front-of-package nutrition labeling to most packaged foods would do that.” The new front-of ...