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Added Sugars in Pure Honey and Maple Syrup, and Other Single-Ingredient Sugars and Syrups, and in Dried Cranberry and Cranberry Beverage Products

June 20th, 2019
Contributor: Michael J. O'Flaherty
Today, FDA published notice of the availability of a final guidance for industry, entitled: The Declaration of Added Sugars on Honey, Maple Syrup, Other Single-Ingredient Sugars and Syrups, and Certain Cranberry Products (June 2019). The final guidan… Read More
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Categories: FDA, For Export
Tags: Added Sugars, FDA, Michael J. O'Flaherty, Nutrition Facts, Nutrition Labeling

Nutrition Facts Update: Compliance Date Expected to be Delayed 18 Months

September 21st, 2017
Contributor: J. Mason Weeda*
Last Thursday, at the Politico Policy Summit, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced that the new Nutrition Facts requirements compliance date will be pushed back one-year and, subsequently, announced via Twitter that the compliance date extension wil… Read More
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Categories: FDA
Tags: Added Sugars, Compliance Date, Guidance, J. Mason Weeda, Nutrition, Nutrition Facts, Trump

Delay of FDA Menu Labeling Regulation Provides Blueprint for Modification of Nutrition Labeling Rules

April 28th, 2017
Contributor: Bruce A. Silverglade
The restaurant industry was bracing for FDA’s menu labeling regulation, requiring mandatory calorie disclosure on menus at chains that have 20 or more locations. The final compliance date was coming up next week on May 5, 2017. However, in a last m… Read More
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Categories: FDA
Tags: Added Sugars, Bioengineered Ingredient Disclosure Law, Bruce A. Silverglade, Dietary Guidelines, Food, Label, Menu Labeling, Nutrition, Nutrition Facts, Regulation, Scott Gottlieb, Trump Administration

FDA’s Guidance on Added Sugars is as Thick as Molasses

January 13th, 2017
Contributor: Bruce A. Silverglade
FDA released a draft Guidance statement on how food companies should calculate the added sugar content in their products for the purposes of nutrition labeling. Comments are due on March 6. Guidance documents are supposed to help simplify FDA regulat… Read More
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Categories: FDA
Tags: Added Sugars, Bruce A. Silverglade, Concentrate, Food, Juice, Labeling, Law Firm, Lawyer, Nutrition Facts, Serving Size, Trump Administration

Long-Awaited Guidance Documents on Revised Nutrition Labeling Released in Draft by FDA

January 5th, 2017
Contributor: Michael J. O'Flaherty
FDA has published two Federal Register notices (see here and here) announcing the availability of draft guidance documents that are intended to help address issues raised by the agency’s final rules (see here and here) amending Nutrition Facts and… Read More
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Categories: FDA
Tags: Added Sugars, Draft Guidance, FDA, Minerals, Nutrition Facts Labeling, RACC, Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed, Supplement Facts, Sweetener, Vitamins

FDA Issues Final Regulations for Nutrition Facts Labeling and Serving Size Changes

May 20th, 2016
Contributor: Bruce A. Silverglade
FDA has issued final regulations changing the requirements for the Nutrition Facts label required on almost all foods since 1994. A picture tells a thousand words, or in this case, more than 1000 pages of typewritten text detailing the new regulation… Read More
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Categories: FDA
Tags: Added Sugars, Bruce A. Silverglade, Calories, Daily Value, Dual Column, Fiber, Food, Label, Mineral, Nutrition, Nutrition Facts, Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed, Serving Size, Vitamin

Expect More Food Labeling Changes Even After FDA Finalizes its New “Nutrition Facts” Regulations

March 24th, 2016
Contributor: Bruce A. Silverglade
FDA is scheduled to issue regulations finalizing its proposed Nutrition Facts label soon according to the US Regulatory Agenda. Many food companies and trade associations are eagerly awaiting the final rules to see how the agency will handle the most… Read More
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Categories: FDA, Public Policy
Tags: Added Sugars, Bruce A. Silverglade, Dietary Guidelines, DRV, Food, Front-of-Pack, Health Claim, Healthy, Label, Lite, Low Fat, Nutrition Facts

2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Released... And Some Thought Already Being Given to the 2020 Guidelines!

January 11th, 2016
Contributors: Roger R. Szemraj, Molly S. O'Connor
The Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have released the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) following what had been a captivating review of the Scientific Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, a proc… Read More
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Categories: Health Care, Public Policy
Tags: Added Sugars, Alcohol, Caffeine, DGAC, Dietary Guidelines, Egg, Food, Health, HHS, Meat, Nutrition, Poultry, Protein, USDA

2015 In Retrospect

January 4th, 2016
Contributor: Arthur Y. Tsien
Happy New Year, readers! Yet another year has come and gone. I hope that 2015 was a good year for you, professionally and personally. As I look back on 2015, here are a few developments that caught my attention. In January, the House Energy and Comme… Read More
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Categories: FDA, Health Care, Public Policy, USDA
Tags: 21st Century Cures Act, Added Sugars, Amarin Pharma, Animal Feed, Antibiotic, AquAdvantage, Arthur Y. Tsien, Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act, Biosimilar, Catfish, Daily Reference Value, Dietary Guidelines, Drugs, FDA, Food, Food Additive, Food Safety, FSMA, Genetically Engineered, GRAS, Homeopathy, Margaret Hamburg, Medical Device, Medicine, Partially Hydrogenated Oils, Robert Califf, Salmon, Sandoz, TPP, Trans Fat, Trans-Pacific Partnership

Sugar Labeling Proposal – FDA Not Too Sweet

October 8th, 2015
Contributor: Richard L. Frank
In a highly surprising and most unusual decision, FDA on Monday denied a broad-based industry request for an extension for 90 days of the comment periods relating to FDA’s supplemental proposal on “added sugars.” The proposal would establish a… Read More
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Categories: FDA
Tags: Added Sugars, Comment Period, Daily Reference Value, Daily Value, Dietary Guidelines, DRV, FDA, Nutrition Facts, President Obama, Richard L. Frank, Sugar
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