Nutrition Labeling and Education

In the United States, additional ramifications maybe expected from FDA s announcement of final regulations for new food labeling requirements under the directive of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (2). Among other things, these regulations limit health claims that can be made on food labels. They also require new information on nutrient content, and limit the use of descriptors such as low and free in association with calories, fat levels, and other food product characteristics. 

Other expansions of FDA s authority include the Dmg Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, commonly known as the 1984 Amendments or the Waxman-Hatch Act, which was passed to attain quicker marketing of safe, effective, and less expensive generic dmgs and the Safe Medical Device Amendments of 1990, which was passed to correct perceived weaknesses in the implementation of the 1976 Device Amendments. Congress further expanded FDA authority over nutrition labeling and health and nutrient content claims on food labels with the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990. 

AOAC Method 985.29for TDF. This AO AC method (3), referred to as the method of Prosky and co-workers (4), was cited in the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act of 1990 as the general analytical approach for food labeling of dietary fiber content. The method has undergone several modifications for IDE and for the primary fractions, SDE and IDE. 

United States Congress passes Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which permitted manufacturers to make some health claims for foods, including dietary supplements. 

The 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act permitted manufacturers to make some health claims for foods, including dietary supplements, if the claims were approved by the FDA. This law stipulated stringent requirements for claims made on behalf of herbal and dietary supplements. The law also required standardized nutrition labels for all packaged foods. 

The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (NLEA). This is an extension of the FDCA and requires that all foods intended for retail sales are provided with nutrition labeling. Mandatory nutrition labeling is not required in most other countries unless a health claim is made. 

Regulatory-Nutritional. Many of the processes for cholesterol removal will meet with regulatory hurdles because of residues, unapproved additives, or byproduct formation. But the real burden for the U.S. dairy industry was the 1993 Nutritional Labeling and Education Act (54). This act created commercial prohibitions,... 

The new nutrition labeling regulations, promulgated under the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1993 (54), mandate that only strictly defined terms be used to make nutrient content claims. For example, the term light may only be used on products that have been specifically formulated or altered to meet one of two conditions (1) if the product derives 50% or more of its calories from fat, reduce the fat level by 50% (as compared with a reference product), and (2) if the product derives less than 50% of its calories from fat, reduce the calorie level by one-third (compared with a reference product). Generally, butter products derive more than 50% of their calories from fat and, therefore, must achieve a minimum 50% fat reduction to use the term light. The term reduced when used as a nutrient descriptor requires a formulation alteration that achieves a minimum 25% reduction in the nutrient from a reference product (63). 

The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act defines a Daily Reference Value for sodium to be listed in the Nutrition Facts portion of a food label. 

According to the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA, 1993), it is optional to give information about the contents of tocopherols and tocotrienols in food labeling in the United States. If given, the contents should be compared with the Reference Daily Intakes (RDI) for vitamin E of 20 mg a-tocopherol equivalents (30 IU)/day. In Europe, only significant quantities of vitamins can be declared. This... 

Following the passage of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act in 1990 that granted additional labeling authority to the FDA, dietary supplements would be subject to stricter criteria for health claims under proposed... 

In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration and the Nutrition Labelling and Education Act permit foods to carry a health claim if a clear relationship exists between any nutrient or other substance in the... 

National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH) Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (1990) National Library of Medicine (NIH)... 

The second recent regulatory issue is the Nutritional Labelling and Education Act in the United States [5]. With this legislation, food companies must provide more information on labels so they are faced with a surge of work in the shortterm to do assays to provide information for new labels. Over the long-term after the initial efforts to update labels, it is anticipated that more analytical work will be necessary on an on-going basis compared to pre-NLEA laboratory workloads. 

This approach is rapidly changing in North America, if not around the world. As noted in the introduction to this chapter, two economic-pohtical factors are motivating profound changes in such traditional procedures the "Montreal Treaty Protocol concerning Chemicals which may affect Ozone in the Atmosphere" [2-4] and the USA s "Nutritional Labelling and Education Act [5]. 

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