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…
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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 la…
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Tags: Added Sugars, Bioengineered Ingredient Disclosure Law, Bruce A. Silverglade, Dietary Guidelines, Food, Label, , Nutrition, Nutrition Facts, Regulation, Scott Gottlieb, Trump Administration
FDA released a draft Guidance statement on how food companies should calculate the added sugar content in their products for the purposes of nutrition labeling.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 regul…
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Tags: Added Sugars, Bruce A. Silverglade, Concentrate, Food, Juice, Labeling, Law Firm, Lawyer, Nutrition Facts, Serving Size, Trump Administration
FDA has published two Federal Register notices (see here and here) announcing the availability of draft guidance documents that are intended to help address issues raised by the agency’s final rules (see here and here) amending Nutrition Facts and…
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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…
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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
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…
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Tags: Added Sugars, Bruce A. Silverglade, Dietary Guidelines, DRV, Food, Front-of-Pack, Health Claim, Healthy, Label, Lite, Low Fat, Nutrition Facts
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…
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Tags: Added Sugars, Alcohol, Caffeine, DGAC, Dietary Guidelines, Egg, Food, Health, HHS, Meat, Nutrition, Poultry, Protein, USDA
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…
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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
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…
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Tags: Added Sugars, , Daily Reference Value, Daily Value, Dietary Guidelines, DRV, FDA, Nutrition Facts, President Obama, Richard L. Frank, Sugar
In tomorrow’s Federal Register, FDA will publish a notice extending until October 13, 2015, the comment period on its proposed changes to the Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts panels used in labeling conventional foods and dietary supplements. …
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Tags: Added Sugars, Daily Value, Dietary Supplement, FDA, Food, Food Labeling, Michael J. O'Flaherty, Nutrition, Nutrition Facts, Reference Amount, Sugar, Supplement Facts
