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[detario]

Hello, we recently had a stall in our production due to labels taking a while to ship.  We bottled product to keep things moving and put batch stickers on each individual bottle as identifiers.  This was time consuming and took a decent amount of effort, as these had to be removed when the labels came in and the representative packaging was applied (it also wasted a lot of labels).  I was wondering if in the future we could fill the bottles, and then quarantine them with very clear and obvious labels/identifiers.  If that is not allowable, I'll just have them use a batch sticker per bottle.  If it helps, we deal mainly with dietary supplements.

[olenazh]

Why should you label EACH bottle? Can you just label a batch (like, say, a skid of bottle cartons, or whatever, wrapped and secured)? That's what we do, always worked fine.

[kingstudruler1]

Its common for canners to produce product and label it at a latter time.

 

I'm not sure if there is a supplement regulation that would not allow this.  

[kfromNE]

I agree with the above - label each pallet with one label then do at a later time. We do this at my facility.

We make bag in a box soups. We process the soups (cooking then blast freezer) - the whole tub of soups is labeled with one label while they cool.

Once cooled, they are individually boxed up. FDA and USDA are okay with this.

[detario]

Awesome, thank you.  I hadn't come across anything saying that I couldn't do that with dietary supplements and was looking for confirmation.  I think my coworkers got hit for something on a prior audit more based on the way they labeled a group of supplements awaiting labeling, as opposed to actually holding them before labeling.