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Major change to come to supermarket shelves

The federal government and several of its state counterparts are pushing for mandatory health star ratings on all food products.

Australia's food ministers agreed to consider mandating the labelling if the currently voluntary scheme was unable to result in 70 per cent of products displaying a health star rating by 2025.

The Food Standards Australia New Zealand recently found only 37 per cent of food products had a health star rating, down from 41 per cent in 2019.

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At an upcoming meeting of the nation's ministers, the federal government announced it will raise the matter.

Assistant Health and Aged Care Minister Rebecca White said the change would be a "sensible next step" for consumer choice.

"We know many Australians want to make healthier choices at the supermarket but don't have time to read through complex nutritional tables or ingredients lists," she said.

"Putting health star ratings on all products will ensure all shoppers can quickly and easily compare the different options on supermarket shelves.

"I'm hopeful that food ministers from across Australia and New Zealand will support this important public health initiative."

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Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Rebecca White.

NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia have agreed to support the proposal to mandate health star ratings on food products.

A final decision, however, will be made after the food ministers are advised about how the new rules could be implemented. 

Peak health bodies, including the Australian Medical Association and VicHealth, have been actively campaigning for health star ratings on food products.

They say a mandatory system would help people make healthier decisions in line with dietary guidelines.

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Person detained, home searched over Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance

Police are searching a home in Arizona and have detained a person for questioning over the disappearance of US TV host Savannah Guthrie's mother Nancy Guthrie.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department said deputies detained an individual during a traffic stop south of Tucson in Arizona and he is being spoken to regarding the missing 84-year-old.

The person was detained near the US-Mexico border in Rio Rico.

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A search warrant is currently being executed at a home in the same area.

Rio Rico is located around 20 kilometres north of the US-Mexico border.

No charges have been laid.

The County Sheriff's Department said it would release more information as it became available.

It remains unclear if the person in custody is the same person pictured in doorbell footage released earlier today.

FBI director Kash Patel earlier told media that investigators were looking at multiple individuals as a "person of interest" in the case.

He said the FBI's investigation has found there "might be person of interest in and around the area related to this event".

Nancy, who has been missing for 10 days, was last seen at her home in Tucson on January 31.

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Her daughter, journalist and long-term co-anchor of the Today US television news program Savannah Guthrie, has issued repeated pleas for information and even appealed to the unknown kidnappers, offering to pay a ransom.

The arrest comes after chilling CCTV footage of a man on the doorstep of her own was released by the FBI.

Patel posted the images online early today, saying they had been recovered "from residual data located in backend systems".

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