25 Place Names and the USDA Rules for Their Use on Food Labels
One of the jobs of the USDA ’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is to protect consumers by ensuring that solid food labels are accurate and not misleading . So it generally require that when a product is described with a home name , e.g. , Virginia Ham , it should actually come from that place . However , thing are n’t always that simple . Some place name are simply a convenient path to refer to a type of solid food : We do n’t expect that Swiss Cheese really comes from Switzerland , and we accept that sure adjective — Italian , Chinese , Thai — name a certain solid food style or spirit profile aside from geographic origin ....