Word: seals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ploy worked and MIT crawled back into the game, taking a 11-8 lead. But the combination of freshman setter Pat Harlan and blocker Brian Erlich allowed Harvard to come back and seal the victory, 15-12, tying the match at two games each...
...A.H.A. Consumers get some clear dietary guidance, and companies get a marketing advantage. C&W Foods of San Francisco has submitted its line of frozen vegetables as an image booster. "Frozen vegetables are the Rodney Dangerfield of the vegetable category," observes C& W President Gary Spakosky. "The seal will help frozen vegetables as opposed to fresh ones, which will not have the seal." The A.H.A. predicts that the program will stimulate introduction of more healthful products. One manufacturer eager to participate reformulated its product before entering it for testing...
...industry groups complain that companies that do not want to join may be forced to if competitive products bear the seal. To cover costs, the A.H.A. charges participants hefty fees, ranging from $15,000 to $640,000 annually, depending on a product's market share. "It looks like an extortion racket," says Richard Sullivan of the Association of Food Industries. Consumer groups are concerned because the A.H.A. has not yet made public the amount of fat, cholesterol and salt it considers acceptable. "We don't know whether the standards are too lax," says nutritionist Bonnie Liebman of the Center...
...Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration fear that the A.H.A. seal may foster simplistic notions about foods and imply some therapeutic benefit from specific brands. The USDA has banned use of the seal on meat products, including frozen dinners and entrees. "The program would have set up the idea of good foods and bad foods, and there is no scientific support for that," says Lester Crawford of the USDA. "There are good diets and bad diets...
...effort to assess proliferating nutritional claims, the American Heart Association introduces a controversial seal of approval. -- Naysaying on oat bran...