FDA Clarifies Name Rules for Golden King Crab, Will Allow Brown King Crab Labeling until 2020
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton December 1, 2017
As part of a budget reconciliation bill this summer, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski helped insert a provision that directed the FDA to use ‘golden king crab’ as the market name for Lithodes aequispinus, which is also known in Alaska as brown king crab.
In a guidance for industry notice published on their website recently the FDA said that they would allow use of both names until January 1, 2020.
FDA said they took this action so that products containing brown king crab meat would not have to be relabeled,...
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