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Dear Colleague,
Welcome to
September's Label Alert. This month's newsletter features a 20%
discount on expediting, plus articles on FSIS' COOL rule, nuts for
nutrition, food prices keep rising, ingredients get cut, government
moves to reduce salt levels, and Schafer weighs in on the benefits
of regulation in guaranteeing food safety. Sit back and enjoy the
cooling temperatures with Label Alert!
| FSIS Issues
Interim Final Rule and Requests Comments on Label Approval for
Country of Origin for Various Meat and Poultry
Products |
The U.S.
Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service
(FSIS) today issued an interim final rule amending its
regulations to provide that, to receive approval by FSIS, any
label for a meat or poultry product that is a covered
commodity, as defined by the Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS) interim final rule on country of origin labeling (COOL),
must comply with that interim final rule. Read
on...
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| Packaged Foods
Boost Nutritional Profile with Nuts |
Nuts are
becoming evermore popular ingredients in packaged food
products as manufacturers continue to satisfy consumer demands
for nutritious goods. Read
on...
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| Food Prices to
Post Biggest Rise Since 1990: USDA |
U.S. consumers
should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly
20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging
meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on
Wednesday. Read
on...
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| Ingredients
Squeezed Out By Commodity Pressures |
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Food companies
are changing their formulations and switching to cheaper
ingredients in an effort to tackle rising commodity costs. Read
on...
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| Local and State
Governments Call for Federal Action to Reduce Salt Levels in
Food |
With high-salt
diets increasingly being recognized as a major cause of high
blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes, health officials
from around the country have called on the Food and Drug
Administration to press food manufacturers and restaurants to
cut back on salt. Read
on...
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| Regulation Will
Not Curtail Risks to Food: Schafer |
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After several
meat recalls this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
does not see passing new regulations as a solution to curtail
risks to food, Secretary Ed Schafer told Reuters on Tuesday.
Read
on...
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