On July 29th, 2014, the US Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia upheld the COOL ruling currently in place. The regulation, which went into effect in 2013, requires labels for cuts of meat to show where an animal is born, raised, and slaughtered. Meat packages now have these labels, indicating, for example, that the animals were “Born, Raised and Slaughtered in the U.S.” or “Born and Raised in Canada, Slaughtered in the U.S.”
This ruling rejected the latest challenge by the meat and food groups to gain an injunction to block the ruling from the Agriculture Department. The American Meat Institute together with other industry groups, sought to strike down the legislation as being unnecessarily burdensome. See this link for additional information on the ruling:
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/213663-dc-circuit-upholds-meat-labeling-rule/
METTLER TOLEDO has put together a short document on COOL labeling as it relates to its retail scale line. The document contains some suggested steps for setting up COOL labeling, links to the official ruling, and links to product information. You can find that information here:
