On 3/23/2015 8:56 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 3/23/2015 7:47 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>> On 3/21/2015 4:31 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> When I went in to my local Dutch butcher this morning to pick up my
>>> weekly order I was told that bad news that they are closing down. They
>>> are victims of bureaucracy. He told me that the government told him
>>> he had to put nutrition labels on all his products, and he cannot
>>> afford to do that.
>>
>> I call bullshit on his claim. The government grants a small business
>> exemption for ground meat products:
>>
>> "to qualify for the small business exemption for ground or chopped
>> products, a retail store must either be a single retail store or a
>> multi-retail
>> store operation that employs 500 or fewer people and produces no more
>> than 100,000 pounds of each ground product per year".
>>
>> And as for intact meat cuts, the business has the option of putting a
>> label on the package *or* displaying a poster with the nutrition
>> information *or* providing pamphlets with that information.
>
> I wonder if he sells other than meats. My butcher makes all
> kinds of prepared dinners and sides, besides meat and their
> sausages. I think it must be a big part of their business as
> it takes up half the counter space in the store. It can't be
> easy to provide nutritional info for that stuff, never mind that
> it's probably a rotating selection.
>
> Just a thought.
The small business exemption covers that, too:
Small Business Nutrition Labeling Exemption
....One exemption, for low-volume products, applies if the person
claiming the exemption employs fewer than an average of 100 full-time
equivalent employees and fewer than 100,000 units of that product are
sold in the United States in a 12-month period. To qualify for this
exemption the person must file a notice annually with FDA.
Another type of exemption applies to retailers with annual gross sales
of not more than $500,000, or with annual gross sales of foods or
dietary supplements to consumers of not more than $50,000. For these
exemptions, a notice does not need to be filed with the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegu...elingNutrition
/ucm2006867.htm
If it is truly a small business (and 'small' is defined very
generously here), it is exempt from the nutrition labeling
requirements for its products.