Allison Condra on Nutrition Facts Labels

FDA Issues Small Entity Compliance Guidance for Yogurt Standard of Identity

SOI sets new requirements for labels and ingredients, including for minimum dairy amount and bacterial cultures; compliance deadline is January 1, 2024 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the availability...more

12/8/2023 / Final Rules , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Food Manufacturers , New Guidance , Nutrition Facts Labels

ATTN: Restaurant Groups – Federal Menu Labeling is Effective May 7, 2018

Enforcement of the federal menu labeling regulations begins May 7, 2018. Restaurants and other similar retail food establishments that are part of a chain of 20 or more locations nationwide doing business under the same name...more

5/3/2018 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Menu-Labeling , Nutrition Facts Labels , Restaurant Industry

Seeing 2020: FDA Proposes New Compliance Date for Revised Nutrition Facts

On Friday, September 29, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) proposed to give food manufacturers an additional year and a half to comply with the revised Nutrition Facts regulations that were published in May 2016....more

10/4/2017 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Food Manufacturers , GMO , Nutrition Facts Labels , USDA

Will We Have a Hodgepodge of Menu Labeling Laws?

Now that the FDA has (yet again) decided to delay enforcement of its menu labeling regulations for another year (and possibly to change the regulations entirely), one question seems to be on everyone’s minds: will we need to...more

5/18/2017 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Menu-Labeling , Nutrition Facts Labels , Preemption , Restaurant Industry

Menu Labeling On Hold – Again

It appears the FDA is again pushing back the compliance date for its menu labeling regulations, which had been set for May 5, 2017. Although the agency has not yet made an announcement of the 11th-hour delay, on Thursday it...more

5/1/2017 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Menu-Labeling , Nutrition Facts Labels , Restaurant Industry

The Dirt on “Clean” Labels

Everybody wants “clean” labels. But, what does that mean? With no legal definition, “clean” labeling encompasses a wide-range of claims, such as natural, healthy, -free, simple, small-batch, no preservatives, no artificial...more

4/10/2017 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Nutrition Facts Labels

Summer Vacay? Not for FDA.

While you were (hopefully) lounging at the beach or hiking mountains, the FDA was hard at work in Washington D.C. churning out final rules and guidance documents that impact food companies in various, and sometimes...more

9/9/2016 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Manufacturers , Food Safety , FSMA , GRAS , Menu-Labeling , Nutrition Facts Labels , Product Labels

Your Food Labels Are Getting a Makeover

If you are one of those consumers that studies food labels (I’m right there with you) or, more importantly, a packaged food supplier, be prepared: your food labels will be getting a makeover. On May 20, the FDA released...more

6/2/2016 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Food Manufacturers , Nutrition Facts Labels

Menu Labeling Compliance Date Delayed, Again

Restaurants and other retail food establishments covered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) menu labeling regulations now have more time to comply with the regulations, according to a statement issued March 9,...more

3/14/2016 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Menu-Labeling , Nutrition Facts Labels , Restaurant Industry

Allison Condra

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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