Items Tagged with 'labeling dairy foods'

Date labeling is used in a variety of formats on most packaged foods sold at retail today. Some date labeling is best described as the discard date; the date beyond which the food is unsafe, and it should be thrown out. 

The proposed FOP nutrition label, also referred to as the “Nutrition Info box,” provides information on saturated fat, sodium and added sugars content in a simple format showing whether the food has “Low,” “Med” or “High” levels of these nutrients. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to announce a proposed regulation this year that will require front-of-package nutrition labeling (FOPNL) on food packages, a move aimed at providing consumers with at-a-glance nutrition information to help them quickly and easily make informed food selections. 

The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations outlines requirements and considerations related to the labeling of foods, including ice cream and frozen desserts.

The ongoing development of increasingly functional technologies is both boosting, and adding befuddlement, to dairy processing operations.

2020 has been challenging for dairy, and labeling is partly to blame.

Joe Scimeca, Ph.D., senior vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs for the Washington, D.C.-based International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), issued the following statement on FDA’s decision to permit the use of milk protein concentrate (MPC), milk protein isolate (MPI) and whey protein concentrate (WPC) in products labeled “high protein milk”:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today updated the nutrition facts label for packaged foods.