March 23, 2009

Where can I complain against false Nutrition Facts on food package?

March 23rd 2009 Posted to Health & Fitness :: Nutrition & Supplement
nutrition
nitin g asked:


I have bought some commodities from Indian grocery shop in Bay area. It is really a bad experience seeing all the lies they put on Nutrition Facts label. They just put anything on any item, I usually buy after looking at the Nutrition facts, after coming home and some research I found what that put on package is just plain false.

I really want them to be punished for playing with consumers health by providing wrong information and there by breaking the law.
Just to clarify, I am in Sunnyvale, California USA.

Zachary

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Comments

  1. Doug-N-Jen
    March 23rd, 2009 | 5:59 pm

    How do I make a complaint about food or a food business?
    The NSW Food Authority is responsible for ensuring that NSW consumers get access to safe and correctly labelled food.

    If you have a problem with food or a food business you can contact the Authority by:

    Telephone on 1300 552 406
    Facsimile on (02) 9647 0026
    Email on
    Letter to:
    Consumer & Industry Contact Centre
    c/- NSW Food Authority
    PO Box 6682, SILVERWATER, NSW, 1811.

    Alternatively, contact your local council. The Authority and local councils share the workload and have agreed to refer complaints to each other depending on who is best placed to address them. Either way, your complaint gets into the system and will be dealt with by the most appropriate organisation.

    It is important that if you are feeling unwell you should separately seek medical advice.

  2. jc
    March 24th, 2009 | 9:27 pm

    Depending on where you live, the departments responsible for checking labels and letting it into the country are partially at fault.
    Also you can make the same product over and over and send it to a lab and it will come back different alot of times.

    In the USA we have the FDA.
    If your here call them.

    If your not in the USA find out who the governing body on food is.
    Report it to them.
    ( but you may get the same answer I gave you about lab testing).

    Cali? It would be the FDA. They control all the imports as well as domestic products.

  3. cutie
    March 25th, 2009 | 1:38 pm

    call da numba on da box/bag or container

  4. bobi
    March 25th, 2009 | 8:45 pm

    Here’s a place to start:

    Also report the grocer to your local Better Business Bureau. It should be listed in your yellow pages; if not, contact the Chamber of Commerce to get the number.