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Food Safety and Inspection Service Proposes Amended Nutrition Labeling Requirements for Meat and Poultry Products
Friday, December 2, 2016

  • As previously covered on this blog, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently issued a notice announcing that meat and poultry manufacturers may voluntarily use FDA guidelines on nutrition labeling while FSIS is in the process of drafting its Nutrition Facts labeling rules for meat and poultry products. Once FSIS publishes a final rule to update the Nutrition Facts label format for meat and poultry products, companies would have to comply with that final rule.

  • Yesterday, FSIS released a proposed rule to revise its nutrition labeling requirements for meat and poultry products to reflect current scientific research and dietary recommendations.  FSIS indicates that the changes parallel FDA’s recently revised nutrition labeling requirements (previously covered on this blog here).  In a nutshell, FSIS is proposing to:

    • Update the list of nutrients that are required or permitted to be declared;

    • Provide updated Daily Reference Values (DRVs) and Reference Daily Intake (RDI) values that are based on current dietary recommendations from consensus reports;

    • Amend the labeling requirements for foods represented or purported to be specifically for children under the age of 4 years and pregnant women and lactating women and establish nutrient reference values specifically for these population subgroups;

    • Revise the format and appearance of the Nutrition Facts label;

    • Amend the definition of a single-serving container;

    • Require dual-column labeling for certain containers;

    • Update and modify several reference amounts customarily consumed (RACCs or reference amounts); and

    • Consolidate the nutrition labeling regulations for meat and poultry products into a new Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part.

  • FSIS will be accepting comments on the proposed rule for 60 days following its imminent publication in the Federal Register.  Keller and Heckman LLP is analyzing FSIS’ proposed revisions and will provide further information related to their implications for industry in the near future.

 

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