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Food Testing & FDA Compliant Nutrition Labeling
What Are the Current FDA Labeling Requirements and What Happens If I Am Not Compliant?
Basics of FDA Labeling Requirements When you look at the enormous amount of regulation surrounding nutrition labeling and FDA label requirements – the simplified version is 132 pages long – the thought of navigating all those food labeling requirements can be daunting...
What Is a RACC? Why Is It Important for an Accurate, FDA-Compliant Label? How do I Use the RACC to find the correct serving size for my product?
What is a RACC? RACC stands for “Reference Amount Customarily Consumed” – in other words, how much an average person would be expected to eat in one sitting. It is used for a reference (or standard) when determining the serving size on food or beverage nutrition facts...
Why Laboratory Analysis is Required to Comply with FDA Guidelines
When preparing your nutrition facts labeling for fermented foods or cultured foods, you may be surprised to learn that simply entering your ingredients into a database will not provide you with an accurate nutrition facts panel. Instead, your product will need to be...
Do I Need to Make an FDA Nutrition Label for my New Food or Drink?
You’ve decided to start selling your own food or beverage product – congratulations! At this point you may be wondering if you will need to make an FDA nutrition label for your product. In short, the answer is: if you’re going to be selling your food or beverage, then...
When to Get an FDA Nutrition Label and Why
Do I Need to Make an FDA Nutrition Label for my New Food or Drink?] You’ve decided to start selling your own food or beverage product – congratulations! At this point you may be wondering if you will need to make an FDA nutrition label for your product. In short, the...
What Type of Lab Food Testing Does My Product Need?
When you’re creating a new food business or expanding your line to include a new food or beverage, it can be difficult to understand what you need to do in order to meet safety regulations, FDA labeling requirements, and requirements from other entities such as the...
What You Need to Know About Shelf Life Testing
The shelf life for food or beverages is the amount of time for which they will be safe and suitable to consume after manufacturing. Usually, you see this in the form of a “Best If Used By” date on food or drinks – this date is...
Nutritional Analysis or Database Analysis: Which is Best for Me?
As you’re getting ready to sell your product, you may wonder where – or how – you will get the information to put on your product’s Nutrition Facts panel. For example, how are you supposed to figure out how much calcium is in your product? To find this information and...
Infographic of Key Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label
Here is a quick overview of the differences between the 'old' and 'new' Nutrition Facts Label: The final ruling on the NEW Nutrition Facts Panel has been announced today. The changed facts panel is an effort to reduce America’s increasing obesity rates and related...