FDA Delays Some Compliance Dates for Vending Machine Candy Labeling Regulations

The Food and Drug Administration is delaying until July 26, 2018, the compliance date for type size front-of-pack labeling requirements and calorie disclosure requirements for certain gums, mints and roll candy products in glass-front machines under vending machine regulations it issued in 2014, FDA said (here). FDA’s final rule established requirements for calorie declarations for certain food from vending machines operated by a person engaged in the business of owning or operating 20 or more vending machines. Under the final rule, vending machine operators do not have to declare calorie information for a food if a prospective purchaser can view certain calorie information on the front of the package, in the nutrition facts label on the food, or in a reproduction of the nutrition facts label on the food subject to certain requirements.