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May 19, 2025 from The Acheson Group:
"In a little over a year, any food sold in California must meet a new date labeling regulation which vastly limits the allowed verbiage for a food quality or safety date label. The food and beverage products labeling regulation (AB 660) requires that the label of food manufactured for human consumption on or after July 1, 2026:
"Although it is a California law, not a federal law, the initiative impacts the entire food industry just as has California’s previous regulation banning brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben, and red dye 3. Not only is it challenging, and often financially unfeasible, to formulate – or label – a food differently for California and the rest of the US, but the regulation is likely to further inform the federal discussion on food labeling.
"To clarify the required uses of the new date labeling, additional provisions of the California regulation state:
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