California is the first state in the nation to officially define what counts as an "ultra-processed food" — a move supporters ...

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LOS ANGELES — California Governor Gavin Newsom on Oct. 8 signed Assembly Bill No. 1264 into a state law called the “Real Foods, Healthy Kids Act.” The law will define “ultra-processed foods” and ...

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Newsom in 2024 signed the School Food Safety Act, which prohibits the sale in California of school food containing ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a first-in-the-nation law to legally define ultra-processed foods, or UPF, and phase out the ...

Associated Press health writer JoNel Aleccia in Temecula, California, contributed. California will phase out certain ...

Sacramento, CA — A new law in California will provide a statutory definition of ultra-processed foods and phase out those ...

The first-in-the-nation law requires the adoption of rules by mid-2028 defining “ultraprocessed foods of concern” and ...

California made history by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed ...