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AAMB speaks out on
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The Amencan Association of
Meat Processors’ Stephen
Knit recently voiced their
feelings to the Food and
Dmg Administration on the
food labeling proposal
outlined m the December 21
Federal Register.
“As an organization
representing nearly 1,400
predominately small,
family-owned meat plant
operations, we are vitally
concerned that a well
thought-out, understandable
and affordable (to the
consumer and the
manufacturer) system be
developed,” said Knit. “The
AAMP believes that the
implementation of a half
baked nutritional labeling
scheme at this stage would
senously jeopardize its long
range reception by both the
consuming public and the
industry.”
AAMP strongly supports
the concept of nutritional
labeling and believes in the
right of the consumer to
know the composition of the
food he or she is purchasing,
he added, AAMP also
believes it impossible to
determine the parameters
for a nutritional labeling
system until it can be
demonstrated that con
sumers have a consensus on
what they want, what the
cost will be to obtain it, and
whether they are willing to
pay for it.
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Several years ago, AAMP
commented that the USDA,
FDA, and FTC should “get
their act together” m the
area of nutntional labeling,
meaning that three different
agencies should not be out
promoting three different
labeling schemes, but rather
should work to develop a
consensus. That consensus
labeling format should be
administered by one agency,
not two or three, said AAMP.
Knit pointed out that
AAMP behves it is
premature to go any further
at this time than to stnve for
a degree of uniformity for a
voluntary nutritional
labeling system. In this
effort, by exposure to dif
fering nutritional labeling
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marketplace, shoppers will
determine through their
purchases which labeling
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derstandable.
To do anything beyond
maintaining a voluntary
system and developing
guidelines aimed at some
degree of uniformity would
be to impose on the con
sumer a nutritional labeling
system that he or she may
neither want, understand or
be able to afford, he said.
Knit said, “Agency and
legislative advocates of a
mandatory system do not
even offer an explanation of
what foods would be covered
and under what cir
cumstances.
“Some contend that
processed foods would
require mandatory
nutritional labeling, but fail
to define processing. To
some a steak need not be
nutritionally labeled, unless
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processing can be anything
from cutting to freezing to
wrapping to fabricating
product, all without
changing its nutritional
value.
“But mandatory labeling
advocates do not address
this issue in any meaningful
way.”
In summation, Knit said,
AAMP must reject the
mandatory nutritional
labeling proposal as
suggested and outlined in the
Federal Register as being
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too incomplete, too ill
defined, too needlessly
expensive and not based on
actual needs and wants that
are balanced with a
willingness to be financed
through mcreases m the food
shopping budget. A task
force approach to attain
superior nutritional labeling
standards through a
cooperative, voluntary
approach is AAMP’s
recommendation and one
that should merit fullest
consideration.
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