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Additional Sugar Label Requirements Taste Sour To Supplement Industry

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

FDA proposes revisions to a 2014 proposed rule due to the 2015 Dietary Guideline Advisory Committee’s report. In a supplemental proposed rule, FDA will establish a daily reference value of 10% of total energy intake from added sugars and require label declarations of the percent daily value for added sugars.

Dietary supplement firms already acting on a 2014 proposed rule by preparing to declare added sugars on product labels will have to find more room to add the daily percentage of total energy intake contained in a product’s added sugars under FDA’s additions to the proposal.

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