Voluntary Label Gets Branded
Label herd: USDA’s Product of USA label keeps adding names to the chute. Six more meat and poultry companies joined the voluntary program, giving the origin-labeling fight a fresh news peg and a little more sizzle in the meat case. Fine print: Under the updated rule, companies can use the claim only when animals are born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the United States. That closes the old loophole where imported meat could pick up a U.S. label after processing here. V
