On 3/23/2015 11:31 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
> 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).

The thing is, Dave's Canadian. Don't know what their 'FDA' is called
but I'm sure their rules are different.

nancy