This is bad news for us and our customers – the TTB shutdown is increasing the already-long lead times for new label approval, according to BeerPulse.com
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) regulates alcoholic beverages. As we were quick to point out both last week and on Monday, the government shutdown has left the TTB without funding to carry on regulatory activities. Two of those activities are issuance of brewers notices for new breweries opening up (which we won’t get into in this post) and issuance of approvals for new alcoholic beverage labels intended to be sold across state lines.
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Thankfully, we are still open for business — call us today to get your reprints of your existing, pre-approved labels right away! Cheers!