| 1642 | Pennsylvania passed a law making it legal to sell alcoholic beverages to Indians |
| 1650 | Connecticut forbade drinking for more than a half hour at a time. |
| 1658 | Maryland enacted a law confining drunkards in stocks for six hours. |
| 1659 | Connecticut made it a misdeameanor to become intoxicated in a private house and assessed each convicted five dollars. |
| 1773 | The importation of hard liquors into Georgia was prohibited. |
| 1784 | A law was enacted in Massachusetts which penalized the seller of diseased, corrupted or unwholesome provisions. |
| 1790 | A law established a portion of rum as a daily ration of soldiers. |
| 1791 | A tax was levied upon the selling of distilled liquors. |
| 1861 | Indiana passed a law which forbade the selling of liquor on Sundays. |
| 1838 | Massachusetts passed a law prohibiting the purchase of fifteen gallons of liquor by one person at a time. |
| 1846 | Maine passed the first state-wide prohibition of liquor law. |
| 1883 | The first Federal Tea Act prohibited the importation of spurious or adulterated teas. |
| 1886 | The Oleomargarine Act imposed taxes, regulated the manufacture and sale and controlled importation of oleomargarine. |
| 1890 | An act prohibited the importation of adulterated food and drink. |
| 1890 | Meat Inspection Act of 1890 authorized inspection of live animals and salted bacon and pork intended for export. This act also authorized inspection and quarantine of imported animals. |
| 1891 | Cattle Inspection Act of 1891 authorized inspection of all cattle intended for export and voluntary inspection of animals for interstate commerce. Voluntary, nonmandatory inspection of animals before and after slaughter and carcasses for canning or processing establishments was authorized. |
| 1896 | The filled cheese act of 1896 defined cheese and imposed a tax and regulated the manufacture, sale, and importation and export of "filled cheese". |
| 1897 | A law was enacted to amend the 1883 Federal Tea Act to establish minimum standards of quality to imported teas. |
| 1902 | The Renovated or Process Butter Act defined processed or renovated butter and adulterated butter. It imposed taxes on butter, prevented sale of filthy or decomposed materials and prevented false branding of food and dairy products. |
| 1906 | The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 provided for mandatory Federal inspection of meats going through interstate commerce. This involved establishment of mandatory after-slaughter inspection of packing houses and procedures for carcass condemnation. |
| 1906 | The first Food and Drugs Act (Wiley Food and Drug Act) was enacted in 1906 to define, control, and prohibit the import, export, and itnerstate traffic of adulterated or misbranded foods and drugs. |
| 1907 | Meat Inspection Act of 1907 provided funds for the provisions of the 1906 act. Additionally, it provided inspection of live horses and separation of diseased animals in the slaughter area. |
| 1910 | A act was established which dealt with adulteration and misbranding of insecticides and fungicides. |
| 1913 | The Imported-Meat Act of 1913 extended the provisions of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act to cover imported meat and meat products. |
| 1919 | The Horse-Meat Act of 1919 requires the conspicuous labeling of meat and meat products from horses. |
| 1917-20 | The National Prohibition Amendment prohibited the use of foodstuffs for the manufacture of alcoholic liquors. |
| 1923 | Congress enacted an act which defined butter. |
| 1923 | The Filled Milk Act of 1923 prohibits substitution of any fat or oil for milk fat in milk or cream. |
| 1926 | USDA took over live poultry inspection in New York. This expanded to take in all states in this program. It was the forerunner of the voluntary inspection of poultry for export. |
| 1927 | Import Milk of 1927 prevents the importation of milk. |
| 1930 | The McNary Maples Amendment of 1930 authorized minimum standards of quality, condition and fill of containers of all canned foods except meat products and milk. |
| 1933 | The National Prohibition Amendment was amended. |
| 1934 | An amendment to the Food and Drug Act of 1906 was enacted to provide for inspection of seafoods. |
| 1935 | Social Security Act of 1935 established retirement benefits to qualified workers. |
| 1937 | National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) of 1937 established employee right to bargain collectively, to form unions. |
| 1938 | Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established minimum wage, maximum hours, overtime pay and child labor standards for the food industry as well as other sections of industry. |
| 1942 | Provisions of 1907 Meat Inspection Act was enacted for intrastate meat plants for the duration of World War II. |
| 1947 | Congre4ss repealed the 1942 Meat Inspection Act |
| 1947 | Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Ac t) of 1947 equalized power of employer to that of unions. |
| 1954 | The Pesticide Chemicals Act of 1954 prohibits marketing in interstate commerce any raw agricultural product bearing pesticide residues unless the pesticide is safe and the residue is within the established tolerance limit. |
| 1956 | The Fish and Wild Life Act of 1956 transferred regulation of formulatio of standards, inspection and certification of fish and shellfish products to U.S. Department of Interior. |
| 1957 | Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957 established compulsory Federal Inspection of all interstate and exported poultry. |
| 1958 | Food Additives Amendment of 1958 prohibits the use of a new food additive until the processor establishes its safety. |
| 1958 | National Humane Slaughter Act of 1958 established standards for equipment and methods used in slaughtering poultry and livestock. |
| 1959 | Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landum-Griffin Act) of 1959 protects the rights of employees with respect to employers and labor. |
| 1960 | Color Additives Amendment of 1960 prohibits use of any color additive which causes cancer. |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it unlawful to refuse to hire because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. |
| 1967 | Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 amended the Meat Inspection Act of 1907 to establish an uniform standard for intra- and inter-inspected meat as well as for plants exporting meat to the United States. |
| 1967 | Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of 1967 regulates the labeling of food products to contain declarations of quantity in largest net quantity, name and address of distributor, packaging requirements and ingredient contents. |
| 1968 | Wholesome Poultry Products Act of 1968 amended the Poultry Inspection of and inspection for State and Federally inspected meats as well as for plants in countries importing meats to the United States. |
| 1969 | This amendment put the shellfish sanitation program under the Food and Drug Administration. |
| 1970 | The Egg Products Inspection Law was enacted to permit the inspection of egg processing plants which sells products for interstate, intrastate and foreign commerce. |
| 1970 | The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was abolished and inspection of fishery products and development of grade standards became the responsibility of the United States Department of Commerce. |
| Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1971 established working conditions for employees. | |
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Jan 6, 1993 | NLEA (58 FR 2066-2941)
Food Labeling; General Provisions; Nutrition Labeling; Label Format; Nutrient Content Claims; Health Claims; Ingredient Labeling; State and Local Requirements; and Exemptions; Final Rules. FDA published the rules and regulations for foods to meet the requirements of the specifications given in the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990.
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Aug. 18, 1993 | NLEA (58 FR 44020)
Food Labeling; Nutrient Content Claims, General Principles, Petitions, Definition of Terms; Definitions of Nutrient Content Claims for the Fat, Fatty Acid, and Cholesterol Content of Foods; Food Standards; Requirements for Foods Named by Use of Nutrient Content and a Standardized Term; Technical Amendments. FDA modified its regulations on nutrient content claims and nutrient content used with a standardized term in response to a final rule entitled "Food Labeling Regulations Implementing the Nutrient Labeling and Education Act of 1990; Opportunity for Comment" (implementation final rule). The implementation final rule provided for the submission of comments on technical issues.
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Aug. 18, 1993 | NLEA (58 FR 44036)
Food Labeling; Health Claims; General Requirements; Fiber-Containing Fruits, Vegetables, and Grain Products and Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease; Fruits and Vegetables and Cancer; and Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects; Technical Amendments. FDA amended its regulation concerning the use of health claims in food in response to technical comments. These technical comments were in response to the implementation final rule.
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Aug. 18, 1993 | NLEA (58 FR 44039)
Food Labeling; Serving Size; Technical Amendments. FDA made technical revisions to the regulations that established the general rules for declaring serving sizes as part of the nutrition label in response to technical comments.
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Aug. 18, 1993 | NLEA (58 FR 44059)
Food Labeling; Declaration of Ingredients; Common or Usual Name for Nonstandardized Foods; Diluted Juice Beverages; Technical Amendments. FDA modified its regulations that require percent juice labeling for beverages that purport to contain fruit or vegetable juice and those that pertain to the common or usual names for such products in response to technical comments. These technical comments were in response to the implementation final rule.
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Aug. 18, 1993 | NLEA (58 FR 44063)
Food Labeling: Mandatory Status of Nutrition Labeling and Nutrient Content Revision, Format for Nutrition label; Technical Amendments. FDA made technical amendments to the regulations that require nutrition labeling on most foods that are regulated by FDA in response to technical comments. These technical comments were in response to the interim final rule.
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| | Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.
| The original regulations for the labeling of dietary supplements and all the associated regulations appear on September 23, 1997, 62 FR 49826-49892 |
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May 10, 1994 | NLEA (59 FR 24232)
Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims, Definition of Term: Healthy. FDA amended its food labeling regulation to establish a definition for the term "healthy" under the act. FDA provided a definition for this implied nutrient content claim and also provided for its use on food labels.
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April 5, 1995 | NLEA (60 FR 17202)
Food Labeling: Placement of the Nutrition Label on Food Packages. FDA amended its food labeling regulations to provide increased flexibility in the placement of the nutrition label on packaged foods. In situations in which the principal display and information panels cannot accommodate all the required labeling information, and the package has a total surface area available to bear labeling of greater than 40 square inches, this allows the nutrition label to be placed on any panel readily seen by the consumer.
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Dec. 28, 1995 | NLEA (60 FR 67174)
Food Labeling: Reference Daily Intakes. FDA amended its regulations to establish RDIs for vitamin K, selenium, manganese, chromium, molybdenum and chloride, but not for fluoride. The agency also amended its regulations to modify the units of measure that are used to declare the amount of biotin, folate, calcium, and phosphorous in food. The agency amended its regulation to make consideration of selenium, chromium, molybdenum, and chloride optional in making a determination as to whether a food is nutritionally inferior to a food for which it substitutes and that it resembles.
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March 5, 1996 | NLEA (61 FR 8752)
Food Labeling; Health Claims and Label Statements; Folate and Neural Tube Defects.
FDA authorized the use on the labels and in the labeling of food, including dietary supplements, of health claims on the association between adequate intake of folate and the risk of natural tube defects. This rule was issued in response to provisions of the NLEA on health claims. The agency concluded that, based on the totality of the publicly available scientific there is significant scientific agreement among qualified experts that, among women of childbearing age in the general U.S. population, maintaining adequate folate intakes, particularly during the periconceptional period, may reduce the risk of a neural tube birth defect-affected pregnancy.
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March 22, 1996 | NLEA (61 FR 11730)
Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claim for "Extra" FDA amended its food labeling regulations to include the term "extra" as a synonym for the term "added". This action was in response to FDA's decision to grant a citizen petition for the synonym filed by Darigold, Inc. FDA concluded that the term "extra" is a clear and unambiguous synonym for "more" and is consistent with the term "added."
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Aug. 2, 1996 | NLEA (61 FR 40320)
Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims and Health Claims; Restaurant Foods. FDA amended its food labeling regulations to remove the provisions that exempt restaurant menus from the requirements for how nutrient content claims and health claims are to be made and from the requirements for the provision of nutrition information with respect to the nutrients that are the basis for the claim, when claims are made. FDA issued this final rule in response to a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Aug. 7, 1996 | NLEA (61 FR 40963)
Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling, Small Business Exemption, Final Rule. FDA amended its food labeling regulations to modify the basis on which low-volume food products of small businesses are exempted from the requirements for nutrition labeling. The regulations also established a notification procedure for small businesses to claim exemption for qualifying food products. This final rule was in response to the NLEA Amendments of 1993.
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Aug. 16, 1996 | NLEA (61 FR 42742)
Food Labeling; Guidelines for Voluntary Nutrition Labeling of Raw Fruits, Vegetables, and Fish; Identification of the 20 Most Frequently Consumed; and Policy for Data Base Review for Voluntary and Mandatory Nutrition Labeling.
FDA revised the guidelines for voluntary nutrition labeling of raw fruits, vegetables, and fish, and revised the nutrition labeling values for the 20 most frequently consumed raw fruits, vegetables, and fish. This action made the voluntary nutrition labeling program more consistent with mandatory nutrition labeling of other foods regulated by FDA. The agency also set out its policy on its review of data bases in both the voluntary and mandatory nutrition labeling programs.
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Aug. 23, 1996 | NLEA (61 FR 43433)
Food Labeling: Health Claims; Sugar Alcohols and Dental Caries. FDA announced its decision to authorize the use, on food labels and in food labeling, for health claims on the association between sugar alcohols and the nonpromotion of dental caries. The agency concluded that, based on the totality of the scientific evidence, there is significant scientific agreement among qualified experts to support the relationship between sugar alcohols (i.e., xylitol, sorbitol, manitol, maltitol, lactitol, isomalt, hydrogenated starch hydrolysates (HSH), hydrogenated glucose syrups (HGS), or a combination of sugar alcohols) and the nonpromotion of dental caries. This action was in response to a petition filed by the National Association of Chewing Gum Manufacturers, Inc. and an ad hoc working group of sugar alcohol manufacturers.
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Nov. 20, 1996 | NLEA (61 FR 58991)
Lowfat and Skim Milk Products, Lowfat and Nonfat Yogurt Products, Lowfat Cottage Cheese, Revocation of Standards of Identity; Food Labeling, Nutrient Content.....for Fat, Fatty Acids, and Cholesterol Content of Food. FDA removed the standards of identity for various lowfat milk, sour half-and-half, and cottage cheese products, based in part on a petition filed jointly by the Milk Industry Foundation (MIF) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and a petition filed by the American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI). FDA also amended the standards of identity for dry cream; deferring action on its proposal to revoke the standards of identity for lowfat and nonfat yogurt; and amended the nutrient content claims regulations for fat, fatty acids, and cholesterol content to provide for "skim" as a synonym for nonfat when used in labeling milk products. This rule provided consistency in the nomenclature and labeling of most nutritionally modified milk.
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Jan. 23, 1997 | NLEA (62 FR 3584)
Food Labeling: Health Claims; Oats and Coronary Heart Disease. FDA announced its decision to authorize the use, on food labels and in food labeling, of health claims on the association between soluble fiber from whole oats and reduced risk of coronary heart disease. (CHD). Based on its review of evidence submitted with comments to the proposal, as well as the evidence described in the proposal, the agency concluded that the type of soluble fiber found in whole oats, i.e., beta (B)-glucan soluble fiber, is primarily responsible for the association between consumption of whole oats, including oat bran, rolled oats, and whole oat flour, and an observed lowering of blood cholesterol levels. FDA announced this action in response to a petition filed by the Quaker Oats Co.
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March 31, 1997 | NLEA (62 FR 15343)
Food Labeling: Health Claims; Soluble Fiber from Whole Oats and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease. FDA amended the regulation that authorized health claims about the relationship between soluble fiber from whole oats and CHD to clarify and correct its provisions. This action was taken in response to inquiries that FDS had received since it issued this regulation.
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April 1, 1997 | NLEA (62 FR 15390)
Food labeling: Nutrient Content Class, Definition of Term: Healthy; Final Rule, Partial Stay.
FDA announced a partial stay of certain provisions of the nutrient content claim regulations pertaining to the use of the term "healthy." This action was in response to a citizen's petition from ConAgra, Inc., to amend the definition of this term.
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June 9, 1997 | NLEA (62 FR 31338)
Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claim for "Plus". FDA amended its food labeling regulations to include the term "plus" as a synonym for the term "added". This action was in response to a petition filed by Nestle USE-Beverage Division, Inc. FDA concluded that "plus" is a clear and unambiguous synonym for "more", and is consistent with the terms "added" and "extra".
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Sept. 23, 1997 | NLEA (62 FR 49868)
Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims: Definition for "High Potency" and Definition of "Antioxidant" for Use in Nutrient Content Claims for Dietary Supplements and Conventional Foods. FDA amended its regulations to: Define the term "high potency" as a nutrient claim; define nutrient content claims using the term "antioxidant" (e.g., "good source of antioxidants," "high in antioxidants," "more antioxidants"); and to correct an omission pertaining to the use of "sugar free" claims on dietary supplements.
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| | Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (62 FR 49883, September 23, 1997).
| Food Labeling: Notification Procedures for Statements on Dietary Supplements Provides the procedure by which manufacturers would comply with the requirements that they notify FDA when they are making statements of nutritional support on dietary supplements. |
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| | Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (62 FR 49886, September 23, 1997).
| Premarket Notification for a New Dietary Ingredient Established a procedure for industry to comply with the notification requirements of DSHEA on "new dietary ingredients." This notification must include information on which the manufacturer or distributor of the new dietary ingredient has concluded that a dietary supplewment containing a new dietary ingredient will reasonably be expected to be safe. |
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| | Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (62 FR 49826, September 23, 1997).
| Food Labeling: Statement of Identity, Nutritional Labeling and ingredient Labeling of Dietary Supplements; Compliance Policy Guide, Revocation FDA amended its food labeling regulations to establish requirements for the identification of detary supplements and for their nutrition labeling and ingredient labeling in response to the DSHEA. FDA also responded to a citizen petition from the Council for Responsible Nutrition on type and size requirements for these products. In addition, FDA announced the revocation of Compliance Policy Guide 530.400 (CPG 7121.02) entitled "Vitamin Products for Human Use-Low Potency" to eliminate inconsistencies with the new labeling requirements. |
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Sept. 23, 1997 |
DSHEA (62 FR 49859) Food Labeling; Requirements for Nutrient Content Claims, Health Claims, and Statements of Nutritional Support for Dietary Supplements.
FDA amended its nutrient content claims regulations to change the terminology used to describe dietary supplements; provide for the use of statements that characterize the percentage level of dietary ingredients that do not have Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs) and withdraw the provision that dietary supplements of vitamins and minerals may not give prominence to any ingredient that is not a vitamin or a mineral on its label or in labeling. The agency also amended its regulations to specify how the disclaimer that must be contained in statements made in accordance with the act is to be presented. FDA took these and other actions to implement, in part, the DSHEA.
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| | Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (62 FR 49859, September 23, 1997).
| Food Labeling: Requirements for Nutrient Content claims, health claims, and statements of nutritional support for dietary supplements. FDA amended its nutrient content |
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Dec. 2, 1997 | NLEA (62 FR 63647)
Food labeling; Serving Sizes; Reference Amount for Salt, Salt Substitutes, Seasoning Salts (e.g., Garlic Salt). FDA amended the nutrition labeling regulations to change the reference amount customarily consumed per eating occasion for the food category "Salt, salt substitutes, seasoning salts (e.g., garlic salt)" from a weight-based reference amount of 1 g to a volume-based reference amount of one-fourth teaspoon.
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Dec. 2, 1997 | NLEA (62 FR 63653)
Food Labeling: Health Claims; Dietary Sugar Alcohols and Dental Caries. FDA announced its decision to amend the regulation that authorizes a health claim on sugar alcohols and dental caries to include the sugar alcohol erythritol among the substances that may be the subject of the claim. Based on its review of evidence submitted with a comment on the proposal, and the evidence described in the proposal, the agency concluded that there is significant scientific agreement that erythritol does not promote dental caries.
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Feb. 18, 1998 | NLEA (63 FR 8103)
Food labeling: Health Claims; Soluble Fiber From Certain Foods and Coronary Heart Disease. FDA announced its decision to authorize the use, on food labels and in food labeling, of health claims on the association between soluble fiber from psyllium seed husk and reduced risk of CHD. Based on its review of evidence submitted with comments to the proposal as well as evidence described in the proposal, the agency concluded that soluble fiber from psyllium seed husk, similar to beta (B)-glucan soluble fiber form whole oats, when included as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of CHD by lowering blood cholesterol levels.
Therefore, the agency amended the regulation that authorized a health claim on soluble fiber from whole oats and the risk of CHD to include soluble fiber from psyllium seed husk.
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March 25, 1998 | NLEA (63 FR 14349)
Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims, Definition of Term: Healthy. FDA revised its food labeling regulations by amending the definition of the term "healthy" to permit certain processed fruits and vegetables and enriched cereal-grain products that conform to a standard of identity to bear this term.
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| | Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (63 FR 23633, April 29, 1998).
| Dietary Supplements; Comments on Report of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels FDA announced its views on recommendations and guidance of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels. FDA announced its views on recommendations and guidance of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1890
| The original regulations for the labeling of foods and all the associated regulations appear on January 6, 1993, 58 FR 2066-2941. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (58 FR 2066-2941, January 6, 1993)
| Food Labeling: General Provisions; Nutrition Labeling; Label Format; Nutrient Content Claims; Health Claims; Ingredient Labeling; State and Local Requirements; and Exemptions; Final Rules FDA published the rules and regulations for foods to meet the requirements of the specifications given in the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (58 FR 44020, August 18, 1993)
| Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims, General Principles, Petitions, Definition of Terms; Definitions of Nutrient Content Claims for the Fat, Fatty Acid, and Cholesterol Content of Foods; Food Standards: Requirements for Foods Named by Use of Nutrient Content and a Standardized Term; Technical Amendments FDA modified its regulations on nutrient content claims and nutrient content claims used with a standardized term in response to a final rule entitled "Food Labeling Regulations Implementing the Ntrient Labeling and Education Act of 1990; Opportunity for Comment" (implementation final rule). The implementation final rule provided for the submission of comments on technical issues. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (58 FR 44036, August 18, 1993)
| Food Labeling: Health Claims; General Requirements; Fiber-Containing Fruits, Vegetables, and Grain Products and Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease; Fruits and Vegetables and Cancer; and Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects; Technical Amendments. FDA amended its regulation concerning the use of health claims in food in response to technical comments. These technical comments ere in response to the implementation final rule. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (58 FR 44039, August 18, 1993)
| Food Labeling: Serving Size; Technical Amendments FDA made technical revisions to the regulations that established the general rules for declaring serving sizes as part of the nutrition label in response to technical comments. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (58 FR 44059, August 18, 1993)
| Food Labeling: Declaration of Ingredients; Common or Usual Name for Nonstandardized Foods; Diluted Juice Beverages; Technical Amendments FDA modified its regulations that require percent juice labeling for beverages that purport to contain fruit or vegetable juice and those that pertain to the common or usual names for such products in response to technical comments. These technical comments were in response to the implemenntation final rule. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (58 FR 44063, August 18, 1993)
| Food Labeling: Mandatory Status of Nutrition Labeling and Nutrient Content Revision, Format for Nutrition Label; Technical Amendments.
FDA made technical amendments to the regulations that require nutrition labeling on most foods that are regulated by FDA in response to technical comments. These technical comments were in response to the interim final rule. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (59 FR 24232, May 10, 1994)
| Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims, Definition of Term: Healthy FDA amended its food labeling regulation to establish a definition for the term "ealthy" under the act. FDA provided a defintion for this implied nutrient content claim and also provided for its use on food labels. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (60 FR 17202, April 5, 1995)
| Food Labeling: Placement of the Nutrition Label on Food Packages FDA amended its food abeling regulations to provide increased flexibility in the placement of the nutrition lable on packaged foods. In situations in which the principal display and information panels cannot accomodate all the required labeling information, and the package has a total surface area available to bear labeling of greater than 40 square inches, this allows the nutrition label to be placed on any panel readily seen by the consumer. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (60 FR 67174, December 28, 1995)
| Food Labeling Reference Daily Intakes FDA amended its regulations to establish RDIs for vitamin K, selenium, manganese, chromium, molybdenum and chloride, but not for fluoride. The agency also amended its regulations to modify the units of measure that are used to declare the amount of biotin, folate, calcium, and phosphorous in food. The agency amended its regulation to make consideration of selenium, chromium, molybdenum, and chlroide optional in making a determination as to whether a food is nutritionally inferior to a food for which it substitues and that it resembles. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (61 FR 8752, March 5, 1996)
| Food Labeling: Health Claims and Label Statements; Folate and Neural Tube Defects FDA authorized the use on the labels and in the labeling of food, including dietary supplememnts, of health claims on the association between adequate intake of folate and the risk of neural tube defects. This rule was issued in response to provisions of the NLEA on health claims. The agency concluded that, based on the totality of the publicly available scientific evidence, there is significant scientific agreement among qualified experts that, among women of childbearing age in the general U.S. population, maintaining adequate folate intakes, particularly during the periconceptional period, may reduce the risk of a neural tube birth defect-affected pregnancy. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (61 FR 11730, March 22, 1996)
| Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claim for "Extra" FDA amended its food labeling regulations to include the term "extra" as a synonym for the term "added". This action was in response to FDA's decision to grant a citizen petition for the synonym filed by Darigold, Inc. FDA concluded that the term "extra" is a clearn and unambiguous synonym for "more" and is consistent with the term "added". |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (61 FR 40320, August 2, 1996)
| Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims and Health Claims; Restaurant Foods FDA amended its food labeling regulations to remove the provisions that exempt restaurant menus from the requirements for how nutrient content claims and health claims are to be made and from the requirements for the provision of nutrition information with respect to the nutrients that are the basis for the claim, when claims are made. FDA issued this final rule in response to a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (61 FR 40963, August 7, 1996)
| Food Labeling: Nutrition Labeling; Small Business Exemption, Final Rule FDA amended its food labeling regulations to modify the basis on which low-volume food products of small businesses are exempted from the requirements for nutrition labeling. The regulatinos also established a notification procedure for small businesses to claim exemption for qualifying food products. This final rule was in response to the NLEA Amendments of 1993. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (61 FR 42742, August 16, 1996)
| Food Labeling: Guidelines for Voluntary Nutrition Labeling of Raw Fruits, Vegetables, and Fish; Identification of the 20 Most Frequently Consumed; and Policy for Data Base Review for Voluntary and Mandatory Nutrition Labeling FDA revised the guidelines for voluntary nutrition labeling of raw fruits, vegetables, and fish, and revised the nutrition labeling values for the 20 most frequently consumeed raw fruits, vegetables, and fish. This action made the voluntary nutrition labeling program more consistent with mandatory nutrition labeling of other foods regulated by FDA. The agency also set out its policy on its review of data bases in both the voluntary and mandatory nutrition labeling programs. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (61 FR 43433, August 23, 1993)
| Food Labeling: Health Claims; Sugar Alcohols and Dental Caries FDA announced its decision to authorize the use, on food labels and in food labeling, for health claims on the association between sugar alcohols and the nonpromotion of dental caries. The agency concluded that, based on the totality of the scientific evidence, there is significant scientific agreement among qualified experts to support the relationship between sugar alcohols (i.e. xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, lactitol, isomalt, hydrogenated starch hydrolysates (HSH), hydrogenated clucose syrups (HGS), or a combination of sugar alcohols) and the nonpromotion of dental caries. This action was in response to a petitition filed by the National Association of Chewing Gum Manufacturers, Inc. and an ad hoc working group of sugar alcohol manufacturers. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (61 FR 58991, November 20, 1996)
| Lowfat and Skim Milk Products, Lowfat and Nonfat Yogurt Products, Lowfat Cottage Cheese, Revocation of Standards of Identity; Food Labeling, Nutrient Content Claims for Fat, Fatty Acids, and Cholesterol Content of Food FDA removed the standards of identity for various lowfat milk, sour half-and-half, and cottage cheese products, based in part on a petition filed jointly by the Milk Industry Foundation (MIF) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and a petitition filed by the American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI); FDA also amended the standard of identity for dry cream; deferring action on its proposal to revoke the standards of identity for lowfat and nonfat yogurt; and amended the nutrient content claims regulations for fat, fatty acieds, and cholesterol content to provide for "skim" as a synonym for nonfat when used in labeling milk products. This rule provided consistency in the nomenclature and labeling of most nutritionally modifed milk. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (62 FR 3584, January 23, 1997)
| Food Labeling: Health Claims; Oats and Coronary Heart Disease FDA announced its decision to authorize the use, on food labels and in food labeling, of health claims on the association between soluble fiber from whole oats and reduced risk of coroinary heart disease (CHD). Based on its review of evidence submitted with comments to the proposal, as well as the evidence described in the proposal, the agency concluded that the type of soluble fiber found in whole oats, i.e. beta-glucan soluble fiber, is primarily responsible for the association between consumption of whole oats, including oat bran, rolled oats, and whole oat flour, and an observed lowering of blood cholesterol levels. FDA announced this action in response to a petition filed by the Quaker Oats Co. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (62 FR 15343, March 31, 1997)
| Food Labeling: Health Claims; Soluble Fiber From Whole Oats and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease FDA amended the regulation that authorized health claims about the relationship between soluble fiber from whole oats and CHD to clarify and correct its provisions. This action was tekn in response to inquiries that FDA had received since it issued this regulation. |
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| | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (62 FR 15390, April 1, 1997)
| Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims, Definition of Term: Healthy; Final Rule, Partial Stay FDA announced a partial stay of certain provisions of the nutrient content claim regulations pertaining to the use of the term "health." This action was in response to a citizen's petition from ConAgra, Inc., to amend the definition of this term. |
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May 15, 1998 | NLEA (63 FR 26978)
Food Labeling; Nutrient Content Claims - General Provisions. FDA amended its regulations for nutrient content claims by revoking the requirement that the label or labeling of a food for which a nutrient content claim is made must bear a "referral statement" that directs consumers' attention to the panel on the label or labeling that bears nutrition information. FDA took this action in response to section 305 of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA). FDA also made some technical conforming amendments to the regulations.
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June 11, 1998 | NLEA (63 FR 32102)
Guidance for Industry: Notification of a Health Claim or Nutrient Content Claim Based on an Authoritative Statement of a Scientific Body; Availability Notice. FDA announced the availability of a guidance entitled "Guidance for Industry: Notification of a Health Claim or Nutrient Content Claim Based on an Authoritative Statement of a Scientific Body." The guidance is intended to provide information regarding the submission of notifications of health claims or nutrient content claims based on authoritative statements of scientific bodies or organizations. This action was taken in response to the provisions made by the FDAMA of 1997.
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Updated: Monday, August 27, 2007.
