The USDA has announced plans to implement a multi-step effort to strengthen the verification of animal-raising claims.
Sandra Eskin, undersecretary for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service says the move builds on the work USDA has already done to ensure label integrity. “We’ve heard from many, many stakeholders that the substantiation that we say is necessary to support a claim is just inadequate,” she says.
Eskin says one of the jobs of FSIS is to guarantee labels on food products are truthful and not misleading.
