This notice updates instructions to inspection program personnel (IPP) on verification sampling at
establishments that produce products in consumer-ready packaging that bear certain labeling claims or raw ground beef in consumer-ready packaging that bears a nutrition facts panel and have been assigned a directed Label Verification Sample Task in the Public Health Information System (PHIS)。 This notice has been updated to clarify that IPP are to submit samples in finished packaging with the label applied to the package and with a label that contains the label claim that makes the product eligible for sampling. Examples of labels of product eligible for sampling are included as an attachment to this notice.