Mr. Nick D'Agostino

D'Agostino's Supermarkets

1385 Boston Post Road

Larchmont, New York 10538-3904

 

Dear Mr. D'Agostino,

 

Enclosed please find our letter of introduction and materials that we are distributing to supermarkets throughout the New York/New Jersey area. We wanted to let you know that members of our coalition have been visiting D'Agostino's and King's supermarket stores over the past week to review the labels of products in your stores' dairy cases.

 

As you may know, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulations and guidelines which require that food labeling and associated materials and promotions must be both "truthful and not misleading." The FDA assesses the need for labels based on the "traits and characteristics of that food," no matter what techniques were used to develop the food.