LabelCalc® Offers Island Princess Laboratory-Level Analysis at A Lower Price
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Accuracy, Convenience and Cost-Effectiveness
Purdy also appreciates LabelCalc’s flexibility – customers enjoy 24-hour access to an online nutrition calculator and FDA facts panel design module. “I love the convenience of being online and having the capability to create nutrition labels at my own speed,” she noted. “And it’s especially useful with package design for new products – I can give my salespeople mock ups with nutrition labels so they can start preselling without having to wait endlessly for laboratory analysis.”
Specialized Services
“I’m extremely pleased with LabelCalc’s customer service,” said Purdy. “Lucy and her team have responded instantaneously each time I’ve had questions, and have successfully resolved my issues within an hour or two. I’m always treated as an important client and made to feel special.”
For instance, although the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) currently has exclusive jurisdiction over the labeling of alcoholic beverages, there is a strong movement to supplant this organization with the FDA and thereby offer consumers more detailed nutritional labels. As a result, Island Princess’s Japanese and Chinese customers recently requested nutrition facts for the Tropical Wines that the company exports. Needham added red and white wine information to LabelCalc’s database and guided Purdy throughout the process of label creation.
“Nutritional information on everything is the wave of the future,” said Purdy. “However, I had no idea how to determine the appropriate serving sizes and nutrition values for wines – it was a difficult problem that Lucy solved for me very quickly and easily.”
More about LabelCalc

Customer: Island Princess, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Challenge: Offer Island Princess an efficient and economical alternative to laboratory analysis for revising nutrition labels to comply with the FDA’s ruling on trans fats, and also to develop new labels for wines.
Executive Summary: Island Princess found the process of using a laboratory to generate nutrition labels both expensive and time-consuming. Plus, the company needed an economical method to revise existing facts panels according to the new FDA ruling on trans fats – which would be very costly with a laboratory. LabelCalc made the process of label creation simple and cost-efficient, offering Island Princess laboratory-level results at a much lower price, and ensuring the accuracy of all trans fat data. Furthermore, LabelCalc helped Island Princess develop nutrition labels for the Tropical Wines that the company exports overseas.
LabelCalc Features:
- Online nutrition analysis tool designed to service small-to-medium sized food manufacturers.
- Clients establish secure user accounts where they can create FDA-compliant food labels and store recipes.
- Clients can conveniently access their accounts and generate labels from any online computer.
- Entire process takes about 25 minutes and includes five easy steps – entering ingredients, entering serving size, selecting voluntary nutrient values, selecting a nutrient facts panel, and determining claims and allergens.
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