Recently, the U.S. Department of agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Bureau issued a new food labeling information and guidelines to encourage food manufacturers and retailers to use the best use date (best if used)
By "label, to facilitate consumer screening at the same time, reduce consumer waste of food.
According to reports, the United States for the sale of packaged food labels, the manufacturers mark different ways, respectively, the best use (best by), a few days ago, the use of
"By" or "sell to one day (sell)
"By", etc.. In order to solve the problem of food labeling date marked confusion, causing people mistook the expired food issue, the United States Department of agriculture will be the date of uniform provisions on food labels as "best in a day before (best if used
By), and requires the use of eggs, meat and dairy producers.
The United States National Resources Protection Association experts said, whether it is the current date label or new "best use" in a day before the date of expiration date are not food, those dates just said best food, not food safety index.
At the same time, for the use of pigment, standard food ingredients label in December 2016, the United States released to allow fruit and vegetable juice as a guide for use of food additives and pigment, pigment all must pass through the United States Food and Drug Administration approved by FDA before use, and in accordance with the U.S. food and Drug Administration FDA allows the use conditions, specifications and constraints. It is required that the manufacturer must indicate the fruit juice and vegetable juice in the ingredients label. Fruit and vegetable juices in as food pigment, can be labeled "artificial colors", "add artificial colors", or "add pigment, or clear pigment has been used, such as fruit juice, vegetable juice pigment pigment" "".
It is reported that the United States Customs on the label does not meet the requirements of imported food, regardless of its quality, are in violation of food labeling regulations for automatic detention. In 2016, Ningbo exported 3624 batches of American food, US $134 million, mainly for canned orange, canned fish, cooking wine and so on.
To this end, the inspection and quarantine departments to remind the United States Food Export Enterprises: one is to further enhance the awareness of the label, pay attention to the collection of foreign related laws and regulations; two is to take reasonable measures to adjust the label content, improve their self-control system, to avoid unnecessary losses; three is to strengthen the identification of audit contracts with foreign customers prevent, annotation and reality difference; and strengthen the inspection and quarantine departments to communicate new products before export, enhance the ability of response to foreign technical trade measures.
