date:Dec 23, 2015
US Congress has passed the spending bill that declared country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law as void.
COOL was put into law in the 2002 Farm bill, and was intended to offer greater transparency to consumers on the food they purchase.
Congress bolstered the law in 2013. COOL required imported beef and pork products sold in the US to carry information on packs where the animals were born, raised and slaughtered.
A provision was created in the 'omnibus' $1.15tn spending programme to repeal the