QR Code Instead of Nutrition Facts Panel?

Hi All!

I hope the new year is treating you well.

I am at a Honey Packing company in North Texas, so FDA.

I've heard on the wind that there could be some potential to replace the Nutritional Facts Panel with a QR Code? Is there any validity to this?

Thank you very much!

Graham Shurtleff

At least in EU in the relevant legislation this is not correct. You must print the nutrition information on the label. If you whant something more than this you can add a QR code

Currently no such regulation exists. In fact nutritional panel, claims and ingredients labelling are of much importance.

Best Regards, 

Abdullah G.

NOPE

Fellow honey packer here. Not only have I not heard of this, but I'd also be very skeptical if I did. 

No truth to this.

The FDA is looking at requiring front-of-package nutrition labeling for saturated fat, sodium, and sugar content to increase visibility.  I'm pretty sure a QR code to replace nutritional facts would be the opposite direction of trying to make people even more aware of what they are consuming.

The only exception I can think of it tiny packages sold from a display type secondary packaging, where the secondary packaging is required to provide the complete info.

As Lynx42 pointed out, there is actually talk of requiring more nutrition info panels on packages, not less.

Does not exist and it shouldn't :D