Table 2.

Characteristics of Federal Register commenters

Variable	Total commenters		Health professionals		Non-health professionals
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Location
United States	3779	46.9	106	55.5	3673	46.7
Dairy State	776	20.5	10	9.4	766	20.9
Other State	2623	69.4	83	78.3	2540	69.1
Did not specify	380	10.1	13	12.3	367	10
Other country	150	1.9	1	0.5	149	1.9
Did not specify	4123	51.2	84	44.0	4039	51.4
Product preference
Prefer dairy products	599	7.4	21	11.0	578	7.3
Prefer PB products	4000	49.7	81	42.4	3919	49.9
Unclear or neutral preference	3453	42.9	89	46.6	3364	42.8
Position on labeling
Support use of dairy terms in PB labeling	5674	70.4	124	64.9	5550	70.6
Oppose use of dairy terms in PB labeling	1021	12.7	47	24.6	974	12.4
Unclear or neutral position on PB labeling	1357	16.9	20	10.5	1337	17.0

N = 8052, n = 191 for health professionals, n = 7861 for non-health professionals