date:May 15, 2015
e next Uniform Compliance Date for Food Labeling Regulations, which is in January 2018.
In comments made in 2013, the American Meat Institute (now known as the North American Meat Institute) said risk assessments completed by the F.S.I.S. showed little difference in the safety of mechanically tenderized beef products compared to intact beef. The organization also argued that including the term mechanically tenderized on packaged beef offered no food-safety benefit and could potentially confuse c