Most food and nutraceutical products sold retail in the USA and Canada require nutritional labelling. In the USA, the Nutritional Labelling and Education Act (NLEA) has three nutritional labelling formats: Mandatory, Simplified and Voluntary which starts with the Mandatory label requirements and has added nutritional components depending upon the needs of the manufacturer.

In the UK and Ireland Exova’s laboratories have been providing nutritional labeling analysis for over 25 years, keeping up to date regulatory information and implementing methods to help our clients maintain regulatory compliance. We offer a wide selection of nutritional labelling analysis parameters including mandatory and voluntary nutrient declarations. Our laboratories hold ISO 17025 accreditation by UKAS or INAB for a wide range of nutritional labelling parameters.

Nutritional Labelling: FDA / USDA Nutritional Labelling for NLEA
The NLEA was implemented, in part, to standardise nutritional labels appearing on retail containers. The act stipulates sampling procedures, testing methods, serving sizes, label formats and more. Not all the 13 tests required for a NLEA label need to be performed on certain products. Products that contain no animal by products or meats shouldn't contain any cholesterol and therefore, the cholesterol test can be dropped. A NLEA simplified format may be used if a product contains insignificant amounts of 8 or more of the mandatory nutrients. We can help you comply with Nutritional Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) regulations and decide what nutritional labelling testing makes sense for your products. After testing is complete, you will receive a data table and a mock label for up to three serving sizes.

Please request a quote online or contact us to find out how Exova's Nutritional Labelling services can assist you.

Nutritional Labelling includes but is not limited to:

• Proximate/Group 1
• Full nutritional/Group2
• Sodium
• Calcium
• Iron
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin C
• Saturated fats
• Trans Fat
• Cholesterol
• Dietary Fiber
• Sugars
• FDA Simplified Nutritional Labelling
  • Proximate with sodium plus sugar profile
  • Proximate with sodium with saturated and trans fats