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Dalthyrian


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Just got a fax in from C&S saying effective 3/1/2012 every ground beef/pork/poultry/veal/lamb package has to have the nutrition labels on there.

I was under the impression I could just change my grinds to say "Ground Chuck/Sirloin/Round" without the percentages and circumvent that whole health inspector checking my fat content - but then this came out of left field.  Is this fax absolute?  Or is that ONLY if you have the fat percentages on there?



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As i understand it that new law includes EVERYTHING not just grinds and I understand you do NOT have to buy labels to put on each individual package if you don't have the resources to do that. You can instead print posters to stick on your case where they can be read. You should confirm that first though I could be wrong.

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fdarn to the best of my knowledge you are correct. Here is the web address for more complete information

http://origin-www.fsis.usda.gov/Regulations_&_Policies/Nutrition_Labeling/index.asp



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From what Ive interpreted,

unless you sell over 100k lb per yr. of any ONE type/grade of burger-you dont need the nutrition breakdown, UNLESS you put a percentage on the description

if you do test for percentages and do need nutritional breakdown, they have stickers with percentages and nutrition breakdown



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RIBEYE1877


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i have had them on my packs for a while now.



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More government regs in an industry already hog tied by regulation..

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Dalthyrian


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Yea just got an update on that - that you do not need to do it if you have less than 500 employees or grind less than 100,000 pounds of any grade indivdually in a year. So that solves that problem - but our C&S guy is telling us that we HAVE TO have the percentages on there - and the owner is listening to him. They sure are making it hard to run a meat department nowadays! All the old tricks are becoming obsolete :(

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dalt, was the c&s guy named Danny B????

I just realized you arent that far from maine

if im ever in the area ill stop in- I do travel to mass




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In Canada we have had to do that for years


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