<story><title>Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled &quot;Product of USA&quot;</title><url>https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/03/product-of-u-s-a-or-not-system-doesnt-bother-denvers-10th-circuit-court/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>o-o-</author><text>Lobbying at its finest – an open form of corruption. The system needs an institution controlling these &amp;quot;interest groups&amp;quot;. A force that can weigh the millions of dollars they spend to sway decision makers&amp;#x27; opinions against &amp;quot;the greater good&amp;quot; (which often turns out to be public health).&lt;p&gt;The same goes for the unneccessarily prolonged fight against tobacco companies and junk food in schools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmarq</author><text>I’m not familiar with American labelling, but in the EU there are several labels that mean different things.&lt;p&gt;I’m not an expert, but roughly speaking PDO (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Protected_designation_of_origin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Protected_designation_of_ori...&lt;/a&gt;) means that the entire process follows certain procedures, ingredients come from a particular area and production happens in certain areas (usually the same as the ingredients).&lt;p&gt;PGI (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Protected_Geographical_Indication&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Protected_Geographical_Indic...&lt;/a&gt;) instead is looser.&lt;p&gt;For instance you may have PGI Tuscan oil that is produced with North African olives, while Lametia DOP (a PDO oil) must be produced near Lametia Terme and must use Carolea olives from the same area.&lt;p&gt;You can’t label your oil “Lametia DOP”, if you produce it near Milan or if you use different olives.&lt;p&gt;All this to say that for “product of USA” to make sense, it should not necessarily mean that in order to get that label all ingredients must come from the USA. You probably miss a PDO-like certification.</text></comment>
<story><title>Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled &quot;Product of USA&quot;</title><url>https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/03/product-of-u-s-a-or-not-system-doesnt-bother-denvers-10th-circuit-court/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>o-o-</author><text>Lobbying at its finest – an open form of corruption. The system needs an institution controlling these &amp;quot;interest groups&amp;quot;. A force that can weigh the millions of dollars they spend to sway decision makers&amp;#x27; opinions against &amp;quot;the greater good&amp;quot; (which often turns out to be public health).&lt;p&gt;The same goes for the unneccessarily prolonged fight against tobacco companies and junk food in schools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexfromapex</author><text>Calling food that is 90%+ made in another country a &amp;quot;Product of the USA&amp;quot; is just insulting and I think if there was no money involved in the judges&amp;#x27; decision making they&amp;#x27;d just call this what it is; deceptive trade practices.</text></comment>