FSIS updates guidelines on animal-raising label claims

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today the availability of an updated compliance guideline on documentation required to support animal-raising claims on product labels that processors must submit to the agency for approval of their use on product labels. The updated guideline reflects FSIS’s current position and procedures for reviewing animal-raising claims and includes explanations of animal-raising claims that FSIS may approve as well as the types of supporting documentation that the agency requires. Examples of animal-raising claims include but are not limited to:  “Raised Without Antibiotics,” “Organic,” “Grass- Fed,” “Free-Range” and “Raised without the use of hormones.”