Common name on food labels

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• Requirements
  • General
  • Exemptions
• Manner of declaring
• Choosing an appropriate common name
  • Avoiding misleading common names
  • Addition of descriptive terms to standardized common names
  • Modified standardized common names
  • Modifying standard names involving nutrient enrichment
  • Kits and mixes
  • Distinctive common names
  • Imitations, substitutes
• Advertising requirements for common name
• Common name in list of ingredients
• Commodity specific information
• Additional information
• Definitions
  • Common name
  • Consumer prepackaged
  • Person
  • Prepackaged