Food exporters advised to make themselves aware of changes to US labelling requirements
Anna Power of Bord Bia’s North America office said that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to seek new indications of added sugars, as distinct from those naturally occurring; larger font size and more prominent ‘calorie’ figure; and more prominent display of the number of servings per package, and replacing the general ‘amount per serving’ with a specified serving size, for example ‘amount per cup’.
“The FDA recently unveiled proposals to update the mandatory nutrition facts label on US food packaging for both domestic and imported products,” Mr Power said.
