Sec. 303. Front-label food guidance systems
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Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the Secretary ) shall begin soliciting public comments regarding— the use of retail front-label food guidance systems to convey nutrition information to the public using logos, symbols, signs, emblems, insignia, or other graphic representations on the labeling of food intended for human consumption that are intended to provide simple, standardized, and understandable nutrition information to the public in graphic form; appropriate nutrition standards by which a retail front-label food guidance system may convey the relative nutritional value of different foods in simple graphic form; and whether American consumers would be better served by establishing a single, standardized retail front-label food guidance system regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, or by allowing individual food companies, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and others to continue to develop their own retail front-label food guidance systems.
In soliciting public comments under subsection (a), the Secretary shall inform the public that any retail front-label food guidance system is intended to supplement, not replace, the Nutrition Facts Panel that appears on food labels pursuant to section 403(q) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 343(q) ). Not later than 12 months following the closure of the public comment solicitation period under subsection (a), the Secretary shall— publish a notice in the Federal Register that summarizes the public comments and describes the suggested retail front-label food guidance systems received through such solicitation; and publish proposed regulations that— establish a single, standardized retail front-label food guidance system; or establish the conditions under which individual food companies, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and other entities may continue to develop their own retail front-label food guidance systems.
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