Health and Fitness

Excessive Vitamins and Minerals in Food Put Millions of Children at Risk

EWG Identifies 141 Over-Fortified Cereals and Snack Bars; Exposes Food Industry’s Misleading Marketing Tactics and Outdated Nutrition Labeling Rules

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 24, 2014.  Nearly half of American kids age eight and younger consume potentially harmful amounts of vitamin A, zinc and niacin because of excessive food fortification, outdated nutritional labeling rules and misleading marketing tactics used by food manufacturers, according to a new reportreleased by the Environmental Working Group, a national environmental health research and advocacy…

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