WASHINGTON — USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Service has announced the latest step in its efforts to streamline and improve the approval process for meat and poultry product labels and to implement value-added business practices that support the overall food safety mission. The agency is expanding the circumstances in which labels may be considered "generically approved."
Under the revised generic labeling rule, statements on labels that are defined in FSIS’ regulations or the Food Standards and Labeling Policy Book will not require prior approval.
Revising this rule to include such statements allows companies to create and use new labels. . .

