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The White House has released the "Biden-Harris National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health," which lays out the Biden administration's policy goals on a number of food-related subjects. The third pillar of the strategy includes the administration's intention to (i) "develop a front-of-package (FOP) labeling system to quickly and easily communicate nutrition information"; (ii) "make sure that foods labeled as 'healthy' align with current nutrition science and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans"; (iii) "adequately fund [the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)]'s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) to prioritize its nutrition and labeling work"; and (iv) "facilitate making nutrition information easily available when grocery shopping online." The strategy also notes the policy goals of "lowering the sodium content of food" beyond FDA's voluntary short-term reduction targets and "lowering added sugar consumption" by further researching strategies for reducing American's sugar intake. The document further promises "regular updates to…