Nutrition Facts - NLEA and Beyond 2015

Key Topics

• Proposed changes to Nutrition Facts. Current status of changes. Possible implementation date. Summary of major proposed changes. Impact on your labels. Steps to take now
• Calculating nutrient amounts per serving. Rounding rules. Checking your work
• Determining serving size. Reference amounts customarily consumed per eating occasion (RACC). Single serving packages
• Graphic requirements and placement. Standard, tabular, linear simplified formats. Mandatory and optional nutrients and footnotes in Nutrition Facts table. Calculating Available Display Surface (ADS)
• Calculating percent Daily Values. What are Daily Values? Rounding rules. Checking your work
• Introduction and scope: Computer programs and services to generate Nutrition Facts tables. Obtaining and evaluating nutrient data
• Other Nutrition Facts formats. Variety packs. Food requiring preparation. Foods formulated for infants and toddlers

Who should Attend

• Quality assurance
• R&D
• Food packaging
• Marketing
• Supervisory capacities who want to ensure that their staff or external services are doing a reasonable job generating Nutrition Facts tables
• Development of new and existing products