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Article: Ground Beef May Get Labeling Pass
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 30, 1994
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The U.S. Agriculture Department proposes to exempt ground beef
from its new labeling regulations, which go into effect Wednesday for
meat and poultry.
Under the proposal, published May 24 by the USDA's Food Safety
and Inspection Service, packagers could continue to put percent-lean
labels on ground beef (for example, "85 percent lean") even though it
doesn't meet the definition of a low-fat food.
The new labeling law states that only foods with less than 3
grams of fat per serving can carry percent-lean labels. A food
labeled "lean" can contain no more than 10 grams of fat and 4.5 grams
of saturated fat in a serving. ...