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FDA Announces Final Guidance on Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels
November 6, 2018
Last Friday (November 2, 2018), FDA announced the availability of its final guidance, "Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels: Questions and Answers Related to the Compliance Date, Added Sugars, and Declaration of Quantitative Amounts of Vitamins and Minerals: Guidance for Industry."
The guidance is in the form of a Q&A that presents FDA's position on the compliance dates and various technical issues related to calculating and rounding nutrients for declaration in the Nutrition Facts Label (NFL) and Supplement Facts Label (SFL). The bulk of the guidance (approximately 17 of 29 pages) conveys FDA's position on what constitutes added sugars and how to calculate added sugars in certain scenarios. With respect to calculating added sugars, the final guidance appears to provide flexibility for some of the technical issues that may arise in manufacturing and processing. This alert highlights some of the clarifications FDA provided regarding added sugars.
March 5, 2018, Covington Alert
On March 1, FDA issued several guidance documents related to the nutrition facts label (NFL) final rule, including: the long-awaited final guidance on the scientific evaluation of petitions requesting approval of ingredients as dietary fiber; a draft guidance on how to declare added sugars on honey, maple syrup, and certain cranberry products; a final guidance ...
January 5, 2017, Covington Alert
Yesterday, FDA issued a long-anticipated draft guidance intended to help industry comply with the agency’s May 2016 final rules modernizing nutrition labeling. Presented in a question-and-answer format, the draft guidance (Q&A Draft Guidance) provides information related to the compliance date, labeling of added sugars, rounding of the declaration of ...
November 2, 2016, Covington Alert
Last week, FDA released a draft guidance1 clarifying requirements for the “disclosure statement” provisions of its four major Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules. Entities subject to these provisions must disclose, in documents accompanying the food, that certain hazards have not been controlled. The draft guidance provides insight into the circumstances ...