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FDA Compliance & Labeling
Generate compliant nutrition labels, manage ingredient statements, and stay ahead of FDA requirements. AI tracks regulatory changes across your SKUs so you never ship a mislabeled product.
What is FDA Compliance & Labeling?
FDA Compliance & Labeling generates FDA-compliant Nutrition Facts panels from your product recipes, builds ingredient statements with proper allergen declarations, tracks FSMA compliance across your SKUs, and monitors regulatory changes so you never ship a mislabeled product. Instead of paying a consultant every time you reformulate or launch a new SKU, you enter the recipe and the tool generates a compliant label automatically — allergens called out, bioengineered food disclosures included where required, and Prop 65 warnings where relevant. Label review workflows route drafts through approval before printing. Built for CPG operator founders and small food brands that can't afford to ship a product with a compliance error, and also can't afford a $300/hour labeling consultant every time they iterate on a recipe. Currently in development; request beta access to get notified when it launches.
Key Features
Who it's for
- CPG operator founders launching their first food product and navigating FDA labeling for the first time
- Small food brands reformulating a SKU and needing an updated Nutrition Facts panel
- Teams tracking FSMA compliance across a growing SKU portfolio
- Brands shipping to California who need Prop 65 warnings handled correctly
Example workflows
Generate a Nutrition Facts panel for a new SKU
- 1Enter the product formulation — ingredients, quantities, serving size.
- 2Review the auto-generated Nutrition Facts panel and ingredient statement.
- 3Verify allergen declarations are complete and accurate for your specific product.
- 4Add any required declarations (bioengineered, Prop 65) based on Starch's suggestions.
- 5Export the compliant label text and drop it into your package design file.
Audit compliance after an FDA rule change
- 1Starch alerts you to a new FDA rule — for example, an updated allergen labeling requirement.
- 2Review the list of SKUs affected by the change.
- 3For each affected SKU, regenerate the updated label panel.
- 4Route the new labels through review and approval before your next production run.
What you can ask
"Generate a Nutrition Facts panel for our new granola SKU"
"Do any of our labels need allergen declaration updates?"
"Are we compliant with the latest FSMA requirements?"
"Which SKUs are affected by the new bioengineered food disclosure rules?"
"Show me all labels pending approval before our next production run"
Frequently asked questions
When does FDA Compliance & Labeling launch?
Currently in development. Request beta access at starch.site and we will notify you when it is available. We are building this based on real operator founder feedback — if you have specific needs, tell us during the beta signup.
Does this replace a food labeling consultant?
For routine labels — standard foods, straightforward reformulations, common allergens — yes. For complex novel foods (supplements, medical foods, functional ingredients with gray-area claims), you still want a consultant to review before you ship. Starch handles the 80% of labeling work that's rule-based; a human handles the judgment calls.
Where does the nutrition calculation come from?
It uses the USDA FoodData Central database for standard ingredients, and lets you enter custom nutritionals for proprietary blends or specific supplier data. The calculation follows FDA's 21 CFR 101.9 requirements for Nutrition Facts panels.
Does it handle Prop 65 warnings?
Yes. You can flag SKUs shipping to California and Starch will include the required Prop 65 warnings when applicable. You still need to determine which ingredients trigger the warning based on your sourcing — Starch suggests based on the ingredient list, but final judgment is yours.
What about bioengineered food disclosure?
Yes. If any ingredient is on the USDA's bioengineered foods list, Starch includes the required disclosure language on the label automatically. This is one of the easier things to miss on a manual label, so the automation is a genuine safeguard.
How does regulatory monitoring work?
Starch tracks FDA and USDA rule changes and flags any of your SKUs that would be affected. When a rule changes — a new allergen added to the big 9, updated disclosure thresholds — you get an alert with the list of SKUs that need updated labels before the next production run.
Does it generate print-ready label artwork?
It generates the compliant text content — Nutrition Facts panel, ingredient statement, required declarations. You'll still need to place that text into your label design in Illustrator or Canva. Starch provides properly formatted output that drops into design files cleanly, but it's not a graphic design tool.
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