'Step-By-Step' Label Guidance On Converting Nutrients' Units Of Measure

FDA provides "step-by-step instructions on how to convert" units of measure for folate, niacin and vitamins A, D and E to units required in the agency's 2016 final rule for Supplement and Nutrition Facts labels. Compliance date for firms with sales of $10m and up.

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Instructions on converting units of measure for five nutrients to comply with the US Food and Drug Administration's 2016 dietary supplement and food labeling rule are the focus of a guidance the agency published 15 August, four and a half months before the compliance date for manufacturers with $10m or more in annual sales.

The FDA says the guidance provides "step-by-step instructions on how to convert" units of measure for folate, niacin and vitamins A, D and E previously used on vitamin, mineral...

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