Xaq Frohlich

• 14 January 2025: Quoted in “F.D.A. Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat and Salt Levels” The New York Times (Online), by Andrew Jacobs

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• 24 December 2024: Quoted in “The FDA’s new rules for ‘healthy’ labels force design best practices” Fast Company (Online), by Hunter Schwarz

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• 8 August 2024: Quoted in “FDA’s ‘hands-off approach’ to additives may allow unsafe ingredients in food, experts suggest” NBC News (Online), by Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Mustafa Fattah

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• 16 July 2024: Xaq Frohlich, “Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information.” The Conversation (July 16, 2024)​

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• 21 June 2024: Interviewed on NPR KCRW Good Food podcast, "Navigating the sea of food labels in grocery stores," by Evan Kleiman (Click here for the full episode: "The Indian diaspora, the life of Fu Pei-mei, California salmon ban")

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• 8 June 2024: Quoted in “FDA expected to propose a label change to packaged foods: Nutrition info on the front” NBC News (Online), by Elizabeth Chuck

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• 20 May 2024: Quoted in “The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?” The Guardian (Online), by Cecilia Nowell

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• 11 April 2024: Xaq Frohlich, “Be Careful With ‘Nutrition Facts’ as a Model for Tech Transparency.” Time Magazine 
(Online) > Made By History (April 11, 2024)

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• 30 October 2023: Interviewed on Unsung History podcast, "The History of the Nutrition Facts Label," by Kelly Therese Pollock (Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcast)

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• 10 September 2023: Interviewed on This Day in Esoteric Political History podcast, "The First Food Nutrition Labels (1971), w/ Xaq Frohlich," by Jody Avirgan, Nicole Hemmer, and Kellie Carter Jackson (Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcast)

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• 25 May 2023: Xaq Frohlich, “Mandatory date labels on food could end confusion and prevent food waste.” Washington Post 
(Online) Perspective > Made By History (May 25, 2023)

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• 4 April 2023: Xaq Frohlich, “Implications of the US FDA's Decision to Label Plant-Based Alternatives as ‘Milk’” Australian Outlook (4 April 2023)

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• 22 March 2023: Interviewed about "Food and Power with Dr. Frohlich" on It’s All History To Me, an AU Student Radio Show, by Victoria Ashley and Sofia Foradori

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• 7 March 2023: Quoted in "Milk Has Lost All Meaning" The Atlantic Monthly, by Yasmin Tayag​


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• October 2022: “Auburn food historian explains new FDA guidelines for ‘healthy’ food labels” AU CLA 
Expert Answers (Oct. 2022)

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• 5 April 2021: Quoted in "Who Was the Most Evil Scientist in History?" Gizmodo.com, by Daniel Kolitz

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• December 2020: Quoted in "Fact check: Thalidomide, COVID-19 vaccine comparisons are misleading" USA Today, by Brian Gordon

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• 15 May 2020: Quoted in "Wet markets are not the problem – focus on the billion-dollar international trade in wild animals, experts say" The Independent, by Louise Boyle

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• 13 May 2020: Interviewed on WLTZ Local TV News with Marlena Mumma, "Food Historian Comments on Wet Markets and COVID-19"

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• 8 May 2020: Interviewed on "Episode 90: In Defense of Wet Markets" Roads & Kingdoms Podcast, by Nathan Thornburgh

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• April 2020: Xaq Frohlich, “Food historian comments on wet markets and COVID-19” AU CLA Perspectives (Apr. 2020)

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• 30 April 2019: Xaq Frohlich, “America’s cherry pies may soon feature fewer cherries. Here’s why.” Washington Post (Online) 
Perspective > Made By History (April 30, 2019)

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• October 2018: Quoted in "Gum, bottled water, pizza bagels want to be called ‘healthy’" Associated Press, by Candice Choi

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• 25 September 2018: Quoted in "What's Yogurt? Industry Wants Greater Liberty to Use Term" Associated Press, by Candice Choi

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• 25 September 2018: Quoted in "Bred-Spred to Cashewgurt: Foods that defy the rules" Associated Press, by Candice Choi

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• 1 February 2018: Quoted in “Clean label’s dirty little secret” New Food Economy, by Nadia Berenstein

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• 30 January 2018: Profiled in “A look at food and power with Xaq Frohlich” AU CLA Perspectives, by Vicky Santos
   

• 14 December 2016: Quoted in “The Triumphant Return of Butter—It’s Not As Unhealthy As You Think” Vogue Magazine, by Claudia McNeilly