Labeling | Food Engineering

Coronavirus

FDA eases nutrition labeling rules to help processors sell restaurant food

Restaurants also could sell some ingredients without nutrition labels to customers, retailers

March 27, 2020

The FDA is relaxing nutrition labeling requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow manufacturers to sell some packaged food that restaurants aren’t buying to retailers experiencing surging demand.

Regulatory Watch

Glucomannan added to definiton of dietary fiber

Sharon Spielman

March 9, 2020

The FDA intends to propose that "glucomannan" be added to the definition of dietary fiber.

Regulatory Watch

FDA issues final guidance for nutrition labeling regulations

Sharon Spielman

February 11, 2020

The FDA has issued final guidance to help manufacturers of packaged foods comply with the updated Nutrition Facts labeling regulations, which addresses serving sizes of foods, including single-serving foods and other foods that can reasonably be consumed at one eating occasion and require dual-column labeling.

Packaging

Keeping up with the e-commerce expansion

Tom Egan , PMMI

January 24, 2020

As consumers demand greater convenience, e-commerce sales continue to rise. According to the 2019 Internet Retailer Top 1000 Report, consumers spent $517.36 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2018, up from $449.88 billion spent the year prior. Even when the final sales takes place in a store rather than online, the first step to most purchase decisions starts at the search bar.

How food and beverage marketing claims can affect the production process

Sharon Spielman

January 17, 2020

Today’s consumers demand transparency more than ever, so the labels on food and beverage products are an important component in such a competitive market.

Study reveals most consumers think food labels are misleading

This study found that 33% consider transparency from a brand as an extremely important factor when purchasing food products.

November 4, 2019

Half of Americans (53%) feel like food labels are sometimes misleading, according to research presented by Crispy Green, Inc., Fairfield, N.J.

Regulatory Watch

Guidance released for converting vitamin units

Sharon Spielman

October 16, 2019

FDA has released a guidance document that provides step-by-step instructions to manufacturers of retail food products marketed in the U.S. on how they may convert the previous units of measure for certain nutrients on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Label to the new units in the updated Nutrition Facts label.

Food Packaging

Dog food maker puts your pup's photo on treat pouches

Rose Shilling

October 14, 2019

We all know personalization and custom batches are trends for people food, but they’re for pets too.

Food Packaging

Color-changing ink to check HPP packaging

Rose Shilling

October 14, 2019

A specialty ink company is offering a new version of its color-changing technology to detect individual packages that failed during high pressure processing.