Just as the federal government updated its food pyramid with the new MyPlate…
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Wondering what happened to those new nutrition labels in your supermarket’s meat department that were promised to debut this week? You’ll have to wait until March 1 for Nutrition Facts labeling on fresh meats, which have been exempt from the labeling rules first enacted in 1990. Those rules made meat-labeling voluntary, but fewer than 60% of producers or retailers followed through. So back in December 2010 the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (which regulates meats, while the FDA regulates other foods) rolled out new requirements: Most cuts of meat and poultry (but not fish, regulated by the FDA and still exempt, as is fresh produce) will have to carry nutrition labeling, including calories and grams of saturated fat. The labels don’t have to appear on each package, but can be made available in poster form instead. Retailers had asked the agency for more time to implement the new rules, and late last year the USDA pushed back the date from Jan. 1 to March 1.
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