Aug 14 (Reuters) - Hershey Co made nutritional claims for its chocolate syrups that do not meet regulatory guidelines, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.

In a warning letter to the company dated Feb. 14, made public on Tuesday, the FDA said the labels on Hershey's Syrup+Calcium and its Syrup Sugar Free with Vitamin & Mineral Fortification violate federal law.

The FDA said the company may not use the terms "plus" and "fortification" on the labels because the products' nutritional contents do not meet the guidelines needed to make such claims.

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Darn.  And just when I had opened a new bottle.

Oh well, that chocolaty taste of Core will do the trick much better! And it IS nutrient-dense.
  (Actually, I am losing my taste for sweets after a few months on the Nectr products --- and I never thought that could possibly happen.)

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Since we plan to be on the road a lot in the upcoming months, I want all of you to read this following scientific study and ABIDE BY IT:   turn on talk radio and turn off all that music.

This week’s Press Release Headline of the Week appears in a press release from the publisher of a journal. The headline is: “A simulator study of the effects of singing on driving experience“. The study to which it refers is:
“A Simulator Study of the Effects of Singing on Driving Performance,” Genevieve M. Hughes, Christina M. Rudin-Brown [pictured here] and Kristie L. Young, Accident Analysis and Prevention, epub July 30, 2012. The authors, at Monash University, Australia, report:
“Twenty-one participants completed three trials of a simulated drive concurrently while performing a peripheral detection task (PDT); each trial was conducted either without music, with participants listening to music, or with participants singing along to music…. Collectively, results suggest that singing while driving alters driving performance and impairs hazard perception while at the same time increasing subjective mental workload. However, singing while driving does not appear to affect driving performance more than simply listening to music. Further, drivers’ efforts to compensate for the increased mental workload associated with singing and listening to music by slowing down appear to be insufficient, as evidenced by relative increases in PDT response times in these two conditions compared to baseline.”

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WAIDDAMINNID!  Talk radio makes me want to strangle someone with a dirty sock.  I don't think that can be good for my road skills.   Better compromise with a little Smooth Jazz.


That's it for now -- NectrHugs to all,
Barb