The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced that new meat and poultry labelling regulations introduced over the next two years will come into effect on 1 January 2010 in a move designed to minimise the economic impact of changes to labelling rules.

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“With this approach to effecting compliance, the meat and poultry products industry is able to plan for the use of label inventories and to develop new labelling materials that meet the requirements of all labelling regulations made within the two year period, thereby minimising the economic impact of labelling changes,” FSIS said in a statement.


The Food and Drug Administration already implements two-year compliance dates with regard to labelling requirements, FSIS said.


“Establishing a uniform compliance date for all future Federal food product labelling regulations affecting the meat and poultry industry that are issued by FSIS over a two year period will eliminate potentially burdensome requirements otherwise faced by the industry,” said the agency.

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