On Jan. 25, The US Food and Drug Administration issued a 60-day procedural notice on its plans to conduct consumer research to explore developing a front-of-package labeling scheme for food.
Almost everyone who attended Pack Expo seemed to have an issue with their operations or a situation that needed straightening out. At least, this was the message from the exhibitors at the nation’s largest packaging trade show held recently in Chicago.
Mettler Toledo’s new Integrated Mark & Verify systems and software can help food manufacturers meet ever-changing product safety and compliance requirements by making it easier to integrate code marking and verification capabilities into their production lines.
By January of this year, companies that made foods containing detectable modified genetic materials were required to label them with a USDA-approved logo.