Category: Regulatory Compliance
News TTB Gets Record Trade Practice Settlement
The Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has signaled a possible crackdown on “pay-to-play” in the beer industry by announcing yesterday a major settlement with the Craft Brewers Guild for illegally paying retail licensees money to stock their brands.
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News TTB Posts Results of Label Non-Compliance Survey
One of the roles of the TTB’s is to ensure that alcohol beverages in the marketplace are properly labeled and do not mislead consumers. The TTB maintains an “Alcohol Beverage Sampling Program” (ABSP) which is a random survey of products in the marketplace to evaluate the success of the TTB label approval process and to check for non-compliant products which are in the market without receiving a “Compliance of Label Approval” (COLA) from the TTB.
Each year the TTB conducts an ABSP by purchasing products from the marketplace and do a label assessments to determine if each product is in compliance with TTB labeling regulations. Following the label assessment, each product goes to the TTB laboratory to undergo a series of analyses to determine compliance with certain information displayed on the product labels (primarily alcohol content).
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News TTB Launches Online New Tutorial
The TTB has created a new online tutorial to help make using Permits Online a quicker and easier process. Permits Online is a free, secure electronic system that allows brewers to apply for the permits, notification, or notices needed to start any TTB regulated business, or amend your existing approvals.
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News TTB Offers Online Tool for Label Changes
The TTB has just launched the “Label Generator Tool” for industry members to help brewers better understand what changes are allowed to your approved labels without submitting a new Application for and Certification/Exemption of Label/Bottle Approval (COLA). This will allow brewers who want to make small changes to an existing beer label to skip the COLA process.
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News TTB Issues ‘Serving’ Facts Guidelines
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has issued a ruling that allows beverage alcohol marketers to include “serving facts” statement on their products’ labels, similar to those used on food and non-alcoholic beverage products. Including the serving facts is optional, but if included on the label must meet certain guidelines set forth by the TTB.
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News Miller vs. A-B Ad War goes to TTB
The National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business
Bureaus, Inc., the advertising industries self-regulatory forum, announced that it will refer Miller Brewing Company to the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau regarding
advertising for its Miller Lite and Miller Genuine Draft beers.
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News The ABC’s of Marijuana and Beer
Posted by Tom McCormick
The annual National Conference for State Liquor Administrators was held last week in San Antonio, TX. This conference is attended by state alcohol beverage regulatory agencies and other liquor control departments along with many trade associations and stakeholders in the industry.
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