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HomeGlossaryCOLA
Compliance

COLA

Certificate of Label Approval · certificate of label approval

In short

TTB approval that the label on an alcohol beverage matches federal labeling rules before it can ship across state lines.

Issued by TTB, a Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) authorizes a specific alcohol beverage label for interstate commerce. Producers submit the artwork (and, where required, a formula) and TTB confirms compliance with mandatory statements — class/type, alcohol by volume, net contents, government warning, country of origin, and any class-specific requirements.

Label drift is a top TTB finding: a small artwork change ships before the new COLA is approved, or the production formula evolves while the COLA on file does not. The fix is to tie approved COLA artwork and TTB formula to the recipe-of-record so a recipe change blocks release until a new COLA is filed and approved.

Regulatory anchors
  • 27 CFR 4
  • 27 CFR 5
  • 27 CFR 7
Where this term comes up
Food ProcessingBeverages & Liquids
How V5 handles it
Document control — one version in force, every change signed and explained.
Draft the next revision while the current one stays in use, approve it under your sign-off route, and track training on it — with the history kept.
Labels — designed, approved, checked and printed in one place.
Many plants run a separate label tool beside their production records, so label versions drift and reprints go unrecorded. In V5 the label designer, approval, printing and the recipe's label details sit with the production record: the barcode scheme set on a recipe is checked when the operator packs, and the approved artwork revision is printed on the batch record. Printer connections are configured per workspace.
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Batch Packaging Record (packaging stage)

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