Food Labeling; Guidelines for Voluntary Nutrition Labeling of Raw Fruits, Vegetables, and Fish; Identification of the 20 Most Frequently Consumed Raw Fruits, Vegetables, and Fish; Reopening of the Comment Period

Résumé

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reopening until June 3, 2005, the comment period for a proposed rule published in the Federal Register of March 20, 2002. In that document, FDA proposed to amend its voluntary nutrition labeling regulations by updating the names and nutrition labeling values for the 20 most frequently consumed raw fruits, vegetables, and fish in the United States. Since publication of the proposed rule, the agency has received new data in comments that it intends to use to further update the nutrition labeling values. The agency also intends to use additional data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for certain nutrients in raw produce. Those data became available after the close of the comment period. FDA is reopening the comment period to allow all interested parties the opportunity to review its tentative nutrition labeling values based upon data FDA received within and after the comment period, and to comment on the additional nutrient data for some of the 20 most frequently consumed raw fruits, vegetables, and fish. FDA will evaluate any new data submissions during this reopened comment period and will consider use of those data in a final r