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The bill creates a clear numeric labeling standard for pasteurized orange juice to improve consumer clarity while imposing near-term compliance burdens and reducing short-term regulatory flexibility for producers and regulators.
Small beverage manufacturers and consumers: pasteurized orange juice labeling will be clarified by a numeric standard (minimum 10.0% orange juice soluble solids, excluding added sweetener solids), reducing ambiguity about product composition.
Small beverage manufacturers: the statute explicitly preserves FDA/HHS authority to revise the standard later, allowing future regulatory adjustments based on new science or industry feedback.
Small beverage manufacturers (especially those using added sweeteners): may need to reformulate products or relabel quickly to meet the 10.0% soluble-solids threshold, generating compliance and reformulation costs.
Small beverage manufacturers and their suppliers: an immediate effective date could create supply-chain, production, and administrative disruptions for firms that lack time to adjust packaging or recipes.
Small beverage manufacturers and state governments: the statutory deeming of a numeric standard may limit short-term regulatory flexibility and invite legal or administrative disputes over interpretation.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires finished pasteurized orange juice to contain at least 10.0% by weight orange juice soluble solids, excluding solids from optional sweeteners.
Takes effect on enactment and amends the federal composition rule for pasteurized orange juice so that finished products must contain at least 10.0 percent by weight orange juice soluble solids, with solids from any added optional sweeteners excluded from that measurement. The Department of Health and Human Services retains authority to amend the relevant regulation.
Introduced February 4, 2025 by Scott Franklin · Last progress February 4, 2025