Special diet standards start upstream of your grocery cart

Key points

• USDA’s September 11, 2026 Federal Register notice schedules a U.S. public meeting for October 8 before a Codex nutrition committee session in Berlin from November 30 through December 4.
• The record concerns international standards work on special-diet foods and nutrition, including follow-up formula, medical-purpose foods and nutrient reference values.
• No U.S. price change, label mandate, menu requirement, company beneficiary, lobbying disclosure or funding figure is documented in the supplied record.
• The next concrete milestone is the October 8, 2026 U.S. public meeting convened by USDA’s U.S. Codex Office.

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