US label rules for blue cheese, soft-ripened cheese

What a blue cheese, soft-ripened cheese label must carry to be accepted in United States — the reference amount, the panel format, the languages, and the law each of them comes from. Every figure below is the one LabelYog's engine uses to build the label itself.

Reference amount (RACC)	30.0 g21 CFR 101.12 fixes this per statutory category. Your serving size on pack is derived from it — not from the portion you happen to sell.
Declared on the basis of	weightHow the reference amount is measured for this category.
How this amount was set	LabelYog inference — by analogy with “Cheese (hard/semi-hard)”No FDA category lists this food. LabelYog applies the reference amount of the closest listed category, following the uniformity principle FDA states at 21 CFR 101.12(a)(9). This is a reasoned inference, not a citation: FDA guidance recommends confirming an unlisted product's reference amount with the agency before you print.
Panel formats accepted	FDA-L, FDA-SV, FDA-PC, FDA-Linear, FDA-T, FDA-SimpWhich nutrition panel layouts this market will accept.
Languages required	English21 CFR 101.15(c)(1)-(c)(2) — English. For articles distributed SOLELY in Puerto Rico (or a territory whose predominant language is not English) that language may be SUBSTITUTED. Any foreign representation triggers (c)(2): EVERY mandatory particular must then appear in it too
Legal instrument	21 CFR 101.9 & 101.12 (FDA nutrition labelling)The law the panel is built to.

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Why the reference amount decides everything

In the United States the serving size printed on a pack is not chosen by the person selling it. 21 CFR 101.12 fixes a reference amount for each statutory category, and the declared serving — and therefore every number in the panel — is derived from that amount. Declaring against the portion you happen to sell, rather than the amount the regulation names, is the single most common reason a label is sent back.

What LabelYog does with this

Enter the recipe once. The engine applies the reference amount above, rounds each nutrient the way this regulator requires (they do not agree with one another), builds the panel in an accepted format, and fits it inside the trim size you already print. The same recipe can then be re-pointed at another market without re-entering anything.

Before any of that costs you anything: the nutrition panel generator, the barcode generator and the QR generator are free and need no account at all. What a paid plan adds is set out on pricing, and the comparison page says what we think actually decides the choice — including the cases where the answer is not us. Every market we build for has its own rule-book page.

Related label rules

The same product, other market: blue cheese, soft-ripened cheese label rules for Brazil — the reference amount and the panel format differ, and the page states both.

Other european specialties categories in United States, each with its own reference amount:

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