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in this
month's headlines ...
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FDA Finalizes
Menu and Vending Machine Calorie Labeling Rules
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FDA finalized two rules requiring that calorie
information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants,
similar retail food establishments and vending machines with 20 or
more locations to provide consumers with more nutritional
information about the foods they eat outside of the home.
Read on...
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Menu Labeling
Rules: A Quick Guide, Plus Industry Reaction
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 The FDA released its
much-anticipated final rules on calorie information on menus and
vending machines today as part of the Affordable Care Act.
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Will
Mechanically Tenderized Beef Labeling Be Pushed Back to 2018?
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Long-planned efforts to place a label on mechanically
tenderized beef may be delayed another two years - until 2018 - if
they are not finalized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and
White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by the end of
this year.
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New Rule Bans
Most Omega-3 Claims
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They've gone and done it again. Just when food
manufacturers become familiar with labeling requirements, the FDA
imposes new restrictions to implement.
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Country of
Origin Label For Meat Cuts Endangered
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The U.S. is running out of options in its effort to
tell consumers where fresh cuts of meat originated after a
successful challenge to package labeling by Canada and Mexico.
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