Nutrition Facts overhaul: Are you ready?
Another lively session focused on proposed changes to the Nutrition Facts panel, which Chobani's new nutrition & regulatory affairs boss Dr Robert Post predicted could be finalized around spring 2016 with a compliance date of late 2018.
Meanwhile, Dr Victor Fulgoni at consultancy Nutrition Impact predicted a legal challenge to some of the more onerous record-keeping provisions in the new proposals (click HERE), which include:
- Removing ‘calories from fat’.
- Declaring ‘added sugars’.
- Requiring pre-approval for some fiber ingredients included in dietary fiber calculation.
- Keeping mandatory requirement to list calcium & iron, but making vitamins A & C voluntary.
- Adding mandatory requirement to list vitamin D & potassium.
- Updating reference values used to calculate % DVs of nutrients.
- Updating reference value for sodium from 2,400mg to 2,300mg.
- Make ‘calories’ more prominent.
- Tweaking serving sizes to better reflect real-life consumption behavior (who eats half a muffin washed down with half a can of energy drink?) Click HERE.
Click HERE for our round-up of the proposal and all the reaction.