A “Made in New Hampshire” Food Label?

NH Bill HB1650 has been introduced in the House of Representatives to protect local farms and food production.  The bill would exempt food grown or … [Read more...]

New Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Bar Codes

The Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA) has just updated their guide for formatting, encoding, and placing bar codes on … [Read more...]

WTO Rules Against COOL

Country-of-origin labeling (COOL), which was written into law in the 2008 Farm Bill, has been ruled as a barrier to free trade by the World Trade … [Read more...]

Helping You Meet PTI Milestones

Strict regulations, high material costs, and consumer pressures for safer food are just some of the factors impacting food producers today. The recent … [Read more...]

Track-and-Trace Benefits the Foodservice Industry

Major foodservice companies are seeing measurable benefits as part of the industry-driven Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative. Two years ago, the … [Read more...]

FDA to Issue UDI and SNI Guidelines

The FDA will soon issue guidelines for marking medical devices with a Unique Device Identification (UDI) and for identifying pharmaceuticals with a … [Read more...]

Summary of our Seminar

At our recent “Demystify DoD Labeling Standards” seminar, held just last week in Nashua, NH, we had a chance to talk with people who are involved … [Read more...]

Latest Updates – FDA UDI

Did you take part in the recent Public Workshop on UDI, hosted by the FDA? I was planning on joining the webcast, but unfortunately missed both … [Read more...]

FDA Announces Food Tracing Pilot Studies

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) will carry out two new pilot projects under the direction of the FDA. The Institute of Food Technologists … [Read more...]

Update to the FDA’s UDI Regulation

Are you wondering what is happening to the FDA's Unique Device Identification (UDI) regulation? Nothing is official yet, but the most recent … [Read more...]