It will take months to calculate the damage Hurricanes Harvey and Irma unleashed on Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and other states this summer: lives lost, homes destroyed, businesses wrecked, property damage in the tens of billions of dollars. But be…
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Tags: Attorney, Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, Congress, Crop Insurance, FCIC, FEMA, Flood, Florida, Harvey, Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, Hurricane, Insurance, Irma, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Law Firm, Lawyer, Louisiana, National Flood Insurance Program, NFIP, Texas
It will take months to calculate the damage Hurricanes Harvey and Irma unleashed this summer on the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Florida: dozens of lost lives, hundreds of thousands of destroyed homes, tens of billions in property damage and untol…
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Tags: Attorney, Crop Insurance, Crop Loss, Elliot Belilos, Farm, Farmers, FCIC, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Flood, Florida, Harvey, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Irma, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Law Firm, Lawyer, Louisiana, Risk Management Agency, Texas, USDA
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
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was enacted in 1994 – almost a quarter century ago. It amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) in a number of significant ways that set the stage for present marketin…
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More announcements are being made each day. We will update this list, as appropriate.
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
WHITE HOUSE STAFF
Chief of Staff – Reince Priebus – head of the RNC (Resigned July 27, 2017)
Gen. John Kelly, former Secret…
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Tags: Cabinet, Executive Branch, Federal Government, Government Relations, HHS, Law Firm, Personnel, President Trump, Regulatory Agencies, Roger R. Szemraj, Transition, Trump, Trump Administration, USDA, White House
Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the installment of Chapter Six to its “Draft Guidance for Industry: Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food” (Draft Guidance). The Draft Guidance explains FDA’s c…
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Tags: Attorney, Food, Food Safety, Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA, Guidance, Heat Treatment, J. Mason Weeda, Law Firm, Lawyer, Preventive Controls
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
Last week the CPSC held a hearing to address its pending proposed rule to require active injury mitigation (“AIM”) technology on table saws. In recent years, too often CPSC hearings have devolved into little more than theater, obviously intended…
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Tags: Active Injury Mitigation, AIM technology, Attorney, Consumer Product Safety, CPSC, George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, Law Firm, Lawyer, Nancy Nord, Regulation, Saw Stop, Table Saw
OFW Law is pleased to announce the creation of a new Health Industry Policy and Regulatory Practice. The practice will be focused on government health program payment issues and FDA-related policy issues for clients in the health care delivery syst…
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Tags: Attorney, Brett T. Schwemer, FDA, Health Care, Health Industry Policy and Regulatory Practice, HHS, Ladd Wiley, Law Firm, Life Sciences, Lobbyist, Medicare, OFW Law, Richard L. Frank
NYC just announced that its revised calorie labeling rule for food service establishments will take effect on May 22, 2017, and will begin being enforced with notices of violation subject to fines on August 21, 2017. This pre-dates the recently re-…
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Tags: Calorie, Chain, Covered Establishment, Food, Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, Law Firm, Lawyer, , Michael J. O'Flaherty, New York, Nutrition, NYC, Restaurant
