Food Labeling Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Food Labeling Act - Provides, under the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall formulate and prescribe a system of food quality grade designations, expressed in a uniform nomenclature, for all food products. States that no person shall distribute or cause to be distributed in commerce any packaged or labeled food product except in accordance with regulations which shall be prescribed by the Secretary. Requires that such grade designations shall appear in conspicuous and legible type on each food package. Provides that the food quality designations for food products adopted by the Secretary shall be grades A to E in descending order of the quality of the food product. States that the Secretary of Commerce shall immediately initiate and carry out a program of consumer education in conjunction with the promulgation of food quality designations precribed by him. Provides that the Secretary of Commerce shall prescribe regulations which shall require that any food product distributed in interstate commerce bear a label containing a statement specifying all the ingredients contained in such food products in the order of their predominan…