The company said in a statement: “Unilever has long been committed to clear, transparent nutritional information for consumers, and therefore welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announced plans to develop standardized criteria on which future front-of-package nutrition or shelf labeling will be based.”
Unilever products that qualified for the Smart Choices Program symbol include: Ragu, Bertolli, Hellmann`s, Country Crock, I Can`t Believe It`s Not Butter!, Promise, Skippy, Lipton, Wish-Bone, Breyers, Slim-Fast, Knorr, Brummel & Brown, Imperial and Popsicle.
No one at Unilever was available for further comment prior to publication.