Editorial and verification policy
State food rules change, and a wrong answer can cost a producer money or create a safety problem. This policy explains how the site tries to keep its claims traceable and appropriately limited.
Primary sources
State pages rely on regulator pages, statutes or administrative rules, official product lists, and government-published guidance. A third-party blog, forum post, or search snippet is not a sufficient basis for a resolved legal conclusion. Each resolved rule identifies at least one source id in the source library.
Verification record
Every state page and rule records the date it was researched and a next review date. The source library records the access date. A date is a research timestamp, not a promise that the rule is still current.
Unresolved cells
If official material does not explicitly support a combination, the cell is marked “not verified.” The product checker never converts “not verified” into an allowed result. Unresolved combinations stay out of the published guidance until the official material supports a clear answer.
Human review
The current coverage contains only the Ohio candy cell. Other state and category combinations are not presented as conclusions until the claim, source, conditions, label boundary, and sales-channel scope have been reviewed. Development completion is not the same as publication approval.
Corrections
If a source changes or a reader identifies an error, the page should be downgraded to “not verified” first, then corrected and re-dated. Corrections should include the affected state, product, claim, and source.
AI and automation
The site uses automated checks to compare a proposed claim with the supplied official material and to flag uncertainty for review. Automation helps route work; it does not create a legal conclusion, replace the official source, or substitute for human judgment. Only claims that pass the documented review are published. The Ohio page remains general information and links to the underlying official source. This site has no AI chat or server-side generation.