In May 2016, the FDA finalized significant modifications to Nutrition Labeling. These are the most dramatic nutrition policy changes in decades. With brand image, label design, label format and record keeping requirements to consider, your company must decide whether to simply re-label products or to re-package, reformulate or remove them from shelves. Below you will see several free resources to help you on your way, including our 7 Steps Methodology. We invite you to view the videos that articulate each one.
Start your transition today with customized solution services from Prime Label Consultants specifically designed to educate, assess the impact, and build strategy across departments at the enterprise, category, and product levels.
Nutrition Label Reform will upend 25 years of packaging strategy. Have you started to analyze how the proposed changes to the iconic Nutrition Facts Panel will affect your labels? The sweeping changes are set to drastically change graphic design, packaging decisions, even brand identities. With the Final Rule out, now is the time to assess how your top brands will be affected. Start today with PLC's Product Identity Impact Report.
This customized report analyzes the major impacts on this label of the FDA’s proposed nutrition & serving size rules. It includes:
Get the data you need to create a phased transition plan across an entire line of products. Our customized algorithm will categorize and structure each product according to the impact on panel size, nutrient declarations, percent daily values, nutrient content claims, and more. This categorical approach to data and graphics impact, with missing data highlighted and actionable To-Dos clearly defined, is essential for planning your enterprise program and phasing your re-labeling, re-packaging and reformulating efforts.
Rapidly assess the impact of the new FDA rules on your brand and develop an efficient & effective transition strategy. Led by management, labeling and food science experts, the core of this cost-effective program is a concentrated on-site training and cross-functional planning session, with pre-visit research & analyses of your product categories and post-visit follow ups. Your organization will gain knowledge with an actionable transition plan.
Proactive planning will be key to a successful transition. Prime Label Consultants’ NLR JumpStart is designed to rapidly assess the impact on your brand and develop an efficient & effective transition strategy.
Prime Label has been a leader in Nutrition labeling since NLEA first appeared in the 1990's. Our Nutrition services, software and training are well respected in the industry since that time. PLC's assigns dieticians and food technologists to individually analyze every recipe and product. We use our proprietary software, EZForm, which contains all FDA and USDA formats, supports bi-lingual & multi-panel labels, and converts your product to the Nutrition Label Reform format. Ask us to analyze your recipe or provide us with a lab analysis, and let PLC's nutrition experts do the rest. PLC’s food technologists work hand-in-hand with your staff to produce "graphics-ready" labels. And if you need to comply with FDA's new menu labeling regulation, we specialize in that too.
PLC's labeling experts also develop other label elements:
Apply customized logic to efficiently convert nutrition content and percent daily values from old to new. Leveraging PLC's expertise in systems based solutions, complete nutrition content conversion can be delivered, ready to provide to your artwork team to be built into the new panels.
Outsourcing is a service where PLC's labeling professionals can completely handle all your food labeling needs. If you cannot handle the additional work load from Nutrition Label Reform or are short of staff or lack the training to work on these new complex changes, we can become your extended NFP conversion and label review staff. PLC has dealt with thousands of labels a year for over 40 years, and we can ensure high quality, cost-effective label compliance for your company. We provide:
If you have a labeling staff, we’ll relieve it of dozens of time-consuming tasks. If you don’t have a labeling staff, we’ll become it! Add the experts at PLC to your labeling staff and save time and money!
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