FDA warns Hershey over chocolate syrup labeling
Hershey Co made nutritional claims for its chocolate
syrups that do not meet regulatory guidelines, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration said.
In a warning letter to the company dated February 14,
made public on Tuesday, the FDA said the labels on Hershey's Syrup+Calcium and
its Syrup Sugar Free with Vitamin & Mineral Fortification violate federal
law.
The FDA said the company may not use the terms
"plus" and "fortification" on the labels because the
products' nutritional contents do not meet the guidelines needed to make such
claims.
A spokesman for Hershey said the company had resolved the
matter. The label on the first product now says Syrup with Calcium rather than
Syrup+Calcium. In the case of the second product, the word
"fortification" has been removed.
The FDA said that in order to be used on a food label,
the amount of vitamins and minerals must equal at least 10 percent of the
reference daily intake, or meet other criteria that Hershey's syrups had not
met.
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