By former USDA Secretary John R. Block
Good news – ethanol exports are up 33% so far this year. By year’s end, we should exceed last year’s record of 1.38 billion gallons.
Turn to hogs – we have raised hogs on my farm all my life. I know…
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Tags: Almond Milk, cell-cultured meat, Chicken, China, Ethanol, FDA, Grain, hogs, John R. Block, Livestock, Milk, Poultry, Scott Gottlieb, Smithfield Foods, Trade, Trade War
CFSAN/FDA’s Office of Food Additive Safety (OFAS) has replaced the original Everything Added to Food in the U. S. (EAFUS) inventory with an upgraded version – the Substances Added to Food inventory. This new inventory — which contains about…
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FDA has announced a public meeting, entitled “FDA’s Comprehensive, Multi-Year Nutrition Innovation Strategy,” (Strategy) to be held on July 26, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. EDT, at the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel, 1750 Rockvill…
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The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act contained provisions aimed at preventing intentional adulteration from acts intended to cause wide-scale harm to public health, including acts of terrorism targeting the food supply. This was the first time tha…
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Tags: CARVER, Draft Guidance, Drug, FDA, Federal Food, Food Defense Plan, Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, Food Facilities, Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA, Intentional Adulteration, KAT method, Michael J. O'Flaherty, Scott Gottlieb
Food manufacturers using the following seven (7) synthetic flavoring substances and adjuvants should take note that the safety of these ingredients is being challenged:
Benzophenone (a/k/a diphenylketone),
Ethyl acrylate,
Eugenyl methyl ether (a/k/a…
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Tags: Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, Carcinogen, Center for Environmental Health, Center for Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Working Group, FAP, FDA, Food Additive Petition, Food Manufacturers, Michael J. O'Flaherty, Natural Resources Defense Council Inc., Ninth Circuit, Petition for Writ of Mandamus, Synthetic Flavoring Substances, Synthetic Flavors, U.S. Court of Appeals, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
On May 4, 2018, the FDA issued its final rule extending the compliance date for the updated nutrition information on the labels of most conventional foods and dietary supplements. The final rule is consistent with FDA’s October 2, 2017 proposed rul…
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Tags: FDA, Final Rule, Food Product, J. Mason Weeda, National Bioengineered Food Disclosure, Nutrition Facts Labeling, Proposed Rule, Q&A Guidance, RACC, Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed, Reference Daily Intakes, Serving Sizes
In a speech, entitled “Reducing the Burden of Chronic Disease,” delivered on March 29th by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb before the National Food Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., FDA kicked-off its Nutrition Innovation Strategy. …
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Tags: Chronic Disease, FDA, Healthy, , Michael J. O'Flaherty, Natural, Nutrition, Nutrition Facts, Nutrition Innovation Strategy, Scott Gottlieb, Sodium, Standard of Identity
Last week, the FDA concluded that there is no credible evidence of a relationship between intake of vitamin D and a reduced risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). The petition, submitted on behalf of Bayer, requested use of the claim “Vitamin D may reduc…
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Several food industry groups hope so.
The responsibility for implementing two major changes to food labeling requirements has fallen on the Trump Administration:
Nutrition Facts Panel – On May 27, 2016, FDA published a final rule that will ove…
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Tags: Agriculture, Bioengineered, Biotechnology, Disclosure, FDA, Food, Food Labeling, GMO, GMO labeling, Government Relations, John G. Dillard, Labeling, Law Firm, Lawyer, Nutrition Facts, Trump, USDA
Washington, DC – Wednesday, August 30, 2017 – OFW Law is pleased to announce that one of its founding principals, Richard L. Frank, has been recognized as the Agriculture Lawyer of the Year in the 2017 edition of the Finance Monthly Global Awards…
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Tags: Advertising, Agriculture, Attorney, FDA, Finance Monthly, Food, Labeling, Law Firm, Lawyer, OFW Law, Richard L. Frank, USDA
