Food Labeling

Toward National Uniformity

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 1992
• eBook ISBN:
  9780309584579
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Medicine

The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (NLEA) changed the existing regulatory framework for food labeling requirements that was shared among federal, state, and local levels of government. In addition to creating a system of mandatory nutrition labeling for foods, NLEA provided a schedule for the preemption of state and local labeling requirements that were not identical to federal provisions. Six provisions were not to be preempted until a study on the adequacy of the federal implementation of those provisions was completed.Food Labeling is the result of that study. It presents recommendations concerning the Food and Drug Administration's implementation of the six provisions that were studied, suggestions for the future disposition of relevant state and local food labeling requirements, and views on the continuing importance of the working relationship among the various levels of government in assuring that consumers are protected from misleading label information.

Table of contents

• FOOD LABELING
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• 1 Summary
• 2 Background of the Study
• 3 Contextual Factors Affecting the Regulation of Misbranded Food
• 4 Criteria for Determining Adequate Implementation of the Federal Statute
• 5 Comparison and Analysis of Federal and State Food Labeling Requirements
• 6 Issues Raised by States, Consumers, and Industry
• APPENDIXES
• Index