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Food and Nutrition (85)	Food Quality (3)
description:	Standards of identity for food are mandatory requirements which are set by a governing body that determine what a food product must contain to be marketed under a certain name in allowable commerce. Mandatory standards (which differ from voluntary grades and standards applied to agricultural commodities) protect the consumer by ensuring a label accurately reflects what is inside (for example, that mayonnaise is not an imitation spread, or that ice cream is not a similar, but different, frozen dessert). A standard of identity sets out what ingredients a product must contain, which ingredients it may contain, and any requirements of manufacturing. AFDSI created a Product Identity Ontology for use in conjunction with AFDSI Conformance Ontology.
complete name:	Food Identity Ontology