What are facility allergens? Facility allergens are allergens that aren't necessarily in the product itself via the ingredients, but nonetheless may be present in some small amount through cross-contamination.
Health Canada announced new nutrition and labeling requirements that went into effect on December 14th. Here's a rundown of the key changes for our Canadian users.
With all the new requirements around sugar, we've got sugar-related issues on our minds. So we've made it easier to deal with sugar alcohols in ReciPal. They are now tracked in ingredients, so there's a field for them in the custom ingredient form and an option to add them to your labels under the Optional Nutrients form.
As part of the new rules for nutrition labels, the FDA has added requirements for keeping records. Food manufacturers take note: you now have to take notes. You have to make and keep written records to support certain information that is included in your nutrition panels.
We posted about the new dual-column requirements for showing nutrition information per serving and per container. But you don't always have to show the information for the whole container when there are between 2 and 3 servings in it.