- Our Misson
Though a vast majority of consumers believe the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has final or ultimate authority over food safety standards and warning labels on packaged food, in reality each of the 50 states also has the ability to require its own warning labels separate and apart from the FDA’s requirements. This multi-tiered regulatory environment is highly inefficient, and serves to confuse, rather than educate, consumers.
The mission of the National Uniformity for Food Coalition is to provide consumers with a single set of food safety standards that are developed in cooperation with state policymakers, and that are based on a consensus interpretation of the entire body of scientific evidence. This is the same standard used in other federally-regulated areas of food and medicine, including meat, poultry, eggs, nutrition labeling, health claims, pesticide residues and drugs and medical devices.
This Web site was established by the National Uniformity for Food Coalition to enlist and aid those who believe that citizens of all 50 states deserve consistent and reliable food safety guidance, rather than a confusing and erratic patchwork of state and federal labeling requirements.