Editorial policy

Nutrillius publishes guides about FDA food labeling and state cottage food law — content that can affect a reader’s money and legal standing. That obligates us to a higher standard than most marketing content. This page describes the standard.

Every regulatory claim cites primary law

When we state a rule, we cite the regulation it comes from — the CFR section on eCFR, the FDA guidance document, or the state statute — and we link the source so you can verify it without trusting us. We never cite a competitor, an aggregator or a secondary blog as a source of regulatory truth.

We say when something is not required

This niche is saturated with fear marketing. Our differentiation is accuracy, and accuracy frequently means telling a reader they are exempt: no US state requires a Nutrition Facts panel on cottage food, FDA does not require lab testing for most products, and the front-of-package rule still has no compliance deadline. When a rule is proposed rather than final, we say so in the first two sentences, and we never write “FDA-approved label” — FDA does not approve labels.

Every page is date-stamped and maintained

Regulatory content decays: states rewrite cottage food laws, caps change, agencies publish guidance that conflicts with their own statutes. Every page carries a visible last-reviewed date. State pages are re-verified against the statute and the state agency’s own page on a recurring schedule, and where an agency’s published guidance conflicts with the statute, we flag the conflict rather than silently picking one.

Numbers are sourced or absent

Every price, statistic and threshold in our content comes from a cited source — vendor-published pricing pages, lab fee schedules, statutes, or FDA documents, dated at the time of citation. When we could not verify a number, the content says so plainly instead of guessing. Comparison pages use only competitor-published pricing, linked and date-stamped, and each one names the buyer we would send to the competitor instead.

Corrections

Drafts are checked against primary sources by an independent review pass before publishing, and that process has caught and corrected real errors — including ones that the majority of published content on the topic still repeats. When we find an error post-publication, we correct the page and update its last-reviewed date. Found one we missed? Tell us— we’d genuinely rather know.

What this content is not

Our guides are regulatory information, not legal advice, and not a substitute for your state agency. Laws change between our review dates. Every state page links the statute and the agency so you can verify at the source before you print.