Is my label legal?
Paste your label copy or drop a photo of it. ShelfStep reads it for six elements common to a packaged food label — the same review its makers run inside their workspace — and shows which of them the draft reported finding and not finding. ShelfStep decides nothing about your label: the agency decides.
The label checklist
The common elements of a packaged food label, as ShelfStep’s label step asks them. Go down your label and tick each one yourself. The rule has exceptions; the one for the Nutrition Facts panel is quoted below.
- Product name. What is the product called on the front of the label?
- Net contents. How much is in one package, as the label prints it?
- Ingredient list. Is the ingredient list on your draft, heaviest first?
- Nutrition panel. Is the Nutrition Facts panel on your draft?
- Name and address. Which business name and address prints on the label?
- Allergen line. Which of the nine major allergens does it contain? Tick each one, and name the specific nut, fish or shellfish; it is saved as the line prints.
- The Nutrition Facts low-volume exemption21 CFR 101.9(j)(18) says:“(ii) For all other food products, the product shall be eligible for an exemption for any 12-month period if, for the preceding 12 months, the person claiming the exemption employed fewer than an average of 100 full-time equivalent employees and fewer than 100,000 units of that product were sold in the United States ... except that if the person is not an importer and has fewer than 10 full-time equivalent employees, that person does not have to file a notice for any food product with annual sales of fewer than 10,000 total units”21 CFR 101.9(j)(18) · Read Oct 8, 2026
Source: 21 CFR Part 101, Food Labeling. Worked out from what you typed, by the same code ShelfStep runs for its makers. It is not legal advice and nobody has reviewed it: confirm anything you act on with your state or county health department, FDA, or your Process Authority.