Regulatory Watch

Draft guidance on nutrition and supplement facts labels released

The guidance is being released for comment purposes.

By Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

FDA has released draft guidance on nutrition and supplement facts labels. The questions and answers are related to the compliance date, added sugars and declaration of quantitative amounts of vitamins and minerals.

The guidance is being released for comment purposes. It provides information on topics related to compliance with the final rule entitled Food Labeling: Revision of the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels (81 FR 33742).

In addition to the information on labeling materials and ingredients, the draft guidance provides information on proper formatting and style for the new nutrition facts label.

The guidelines are not legally enforceable. They are designed to provide insight into FDA’s thinking on how to comply with regulations and should only be viewed as recommendations, unless specific requirements are cited. The guidelines can be viewed on FDA’s website under Guidance Documents & Regulatory Information by Topic. (http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/UCM535372.pdf)

KEYWORDS: labeling nutrition

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Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.