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FDA Updates Available Product Categories for Upcoming Food Facility Registration Period
September 27, 2016 |FDA

The Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 26 updated product categories that foreign and domestic food facilities may choose in biennial registrations with FDA, adding the list of new categories to its guidance of food facility registration (here). New categories include animal food categories of botanicals and herbs, direct fed microbials, animal protein products, forage products, human food byproducts and technical additives. FDA is also removing acidified foods and low-acid canned foods from food product categories because they are now activity types, and adding molluscan shellfish as a food shellfish instead of an activity type. Food companies will be able to select the new categories during the upcoming registration period from October through December, FDA said (here).

FDA Considers Update to 'Natural' Claims on Food Labels
September 27, 2016 |FDA

The Food and Drug Administration seeks comments on a potential update to its requirements for using the term “healthy” in the labeling of human food, it said (here). The request for input comes partly in response to petitions that FDA amend its regulation defining the nutrient content claim “healthy” with respect to total fat intake and amend the regulation to emphasize “whole foods and dietary patterns rather than specific nutrients,” FDA said. Comments are due Jan. 27, 2017. As it considers changes to requirements for “healthy” claims, FDA will “exercise enforcement discretion” for foods that use the claims if they are (1) not low in total fat, but are made up of mostly unsaturated fats instead of saturated fats, or (2) contain at least 10 percent of the FDA’s recommended daily value for potassium or vitamin D, it said in a guidance released Sept. 27 (here).