To accommodate these multidimensional demands, regulators and firms are developing new multiattribute product labeling and production standards.
"If consumers lose faith in product labeling, we'll be affected by that," she said.
The approach will likely lead to product labeling that designates a drug for smaller patient populations.
One way to check is the US Environmental Protection Agency's Design for the Environment (DfE) Safer Product Labeling Program.
Ideally, product labeling will lead to a significant reduction in and eventual elimination of hydrogenated oils in processed foods.
Industry not only promoted this fiction, but it scoffed at the prospects of product labeling, insisting that it was the product, not the process, that mattered.
The letters spell out final issues to be resolved before the agency will allow a drug to be marketed; such issues often involve product labeling.
For home appliances, the report suggests expanding product labeling to more products and increasing minimum efficiency standards "where technologically feasible and economically justified".
Consumer movements and official bodies have, in many countries, seen the need for better systems of product labeling.
Tyson Foods said on Monday that it was voluntarily withdrawing its labels for chicken raised without antibiotics because of what it called "uncertainty and controversy over product labeling regulations".
"We are going to conduct a review of the data from the Women's Health Initiative study and evaluate the product and the product labeling in light of those data," said Susan Cruzan, an agency spokeswoman.
