Chocolate-lovers and hopeless romantics rejoice: FDA has announced that it does not intend to object to the use of certain qualified health claims regarding the relationship between the consumption of cocoa flavanols in high flavanol cocoa powder and a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease. Though not …
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two guidance documents, one draft and one final, on food allergen labeling requirements. The draft guidance, “Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergen Labeling (Edition 5),” replaces the 16-year-old Edition 4 of the final guidance with new …
At the risk of ruining our readers’ appetite for America’s most food-focused holiday, foodborne illnesses have been a feature of Thanksgiving for some time now. Some of us might still recall the 2017 salmonella outbreak linked to raw turkey products that caused over 279 infections, …
FDA announced that it has completed the first pre-market consultation for an animal cell-cultured food, based on a safety assessment submitted by UPSIDE Foods. In an indication of the significance of this development, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and CFSAN Director Susan Mayne issued a statement …
The question of whether FDA has authority to take pictures during an inspection of a facility has bounced around the food and drug bar for many years. FDA’s view is stated in the agency’s Investigation Operations Manual, and it is one with which a number …
On September 28, 2022, FDA announced the availability of the proposed rule for the implied nutrient content claim “healthy.” The healthy claim has been the topic of much discussion and challenged in consumer class actions. The term healthy, as an implied nutrient claim, was first …
As we previously reported, about two years ago, the Natural Grocers, Citizens for GMO Labeling, Label GMOs, Rural Vermont, Good Earth Natural Foods, Puget Consumers Co-op, and the Center for Food Safety (“Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint against USDA challenging USDA’s the final rule implementing the …
On August 5, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced a proposal to amend the organic livestock and poultry production requirements by adding new provisions for livestock handling, transport for slaughter, and avian growing/living conditions, as well as provisions to clarify …
A couple of weeks ago, Senator Durbin and Representative DeLauro introduced the Food Safety Administration Act. The legislation would create the Food Safety Administration (FSA), a food safety agency that would incorporate FDA’s food safety and veterinary medicine centers and the Office of Regulatory Affairs’ …
Last month, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) submitted a petition to the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (FSIS) requesting that FSIS initiate rulemaking to remove animal raising claims from the label approval process because, according to …
The American Conference Institute and Council for Responsible Nutrition are hosting the 10th Annual Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements live in New York next week, June 29-30. The conference will feature speakers from government and industry who will provide updates on the …
On June 14-15 in Washington, DC, the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) will hold its first in-person Annual Conference since 2019. The conference brings together leading regulators and a wide range of stakeholders to discuss current issues and trends of importance to FDA-regulated industries. …
As one of several means to alleviate the ongoing shortage of infant formula in the U.S., earlier this week FDA issued a guidance document that outlines the factors FDA will consider in deciding whether to allow the distribution of an infant formula that does not …
All companies dread the logistics, cost, and reputational harm associated with conducting a recall when necessary to remove or correct products in the field. But the more prepared a company is for a potential recall, the less pressure it will feel when a situation necessitates …
On December 6, 2021, FDA published a proposed rule to reorganize and amend the highly criticized agricultural water provisions of the Produce Safety Rule (PSR). This marks the Agency’s latest effort to balance public health protections with covered farms’ persistent concerns that the current provisions …
