One of the most important decisions people can make about their health is the choice of foods they eat. A top priority at FDA is finding additional ways to clearly communicate the health benefits found in food.

This approval is another example of our agency's endeavor to counter rising health care costs by approving safe and effective generic alternatives as soon as the law permits.

It expresses our concern that, over time, the labels became cluttered with a lot of information that wasn't necessarily directly pertinent to the patient and the physician. These labels need to be reclaimed for patients and physicians.

Sometimes less is more - less information, but highlighting it in a better way, sometimes better conveys important risk information.

The problem is that most employers and businesses are not back, and that means many people are still without health insurance or a way to pay for medical care.

What it means to me is that people are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected, and in really real ways, there can be a kind of spread of disease between people.