FDA Proposes To Extend Compliance Dates For Nutrition Facts, Serving Size Rules

September 29, 2017 at 1:24 PM
FDA proposed Friday (Sept. 29) to extend the compliance dates for its nutrition facts regulations, citing a need to issue guidance on added sugar and dietary fiber for manufacturers to be able to successfully update their nutrition facts labels. The proposed extension comes less than a month after FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency simply was not ready to implement the regulations on the timeline the Obama administration had set. In its proposed rule, the agency extends the compliance...


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