March 5/Arlington, Va./FSIS -- The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued Notice 15-12, “Verifying Nutrition Labeling for the Major Cuts of Single-Ingredient, Raw Meat and Poultry Products and Ground or Chopped Meat and Poultry Products.” The notice provides inspection program personnel (IPP) with instructions for enforcing the final regulation “Nutrition Labeling of Single-Ingredient Products and Ground or Chopped Meat and Poultry Products.” The regulation is effective March 1, 2012.
According to the notice, when performing the general labeling task in PHIS, IPP in meat and poultry establishments are to verify that all single-ingredient ground or chopped meat and poultry products that do not qualify for an exemption under the final regulation, bear “Nutrition Facts” panels on their labels.