Having borrowed my colleague’s crystal ball, I see the following Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) initiatives in 2015:
At the time of this writing, FSIS has not issued two final labeling rules. The agency hopes to publish these two in 2014 because, under the Uniform Compliance Date for Labeling Regulations, all labeling regulations published by Dec. 31, 2014, would have an effective date of Jan. 1, 2016. If the agency misses this deadline and publishes the rules on or after Jan. 2, 2015, the effective date for the rules will not be until Jan. 1, 2018.