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Menu Labeling Update: FDA Releases Supplemental Draft Guidance

Posted on November 8, 2017

Over the past several years, FDA has been in the process of implementing menu labeling provisions added to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by the Affordable Care Act.

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FDA Study Shows Low Pesticide Levels in Food

Posted on November 7, 2017

Ninety-eight percent of domestic and 90% of imported foods tested in FY 2015 were compliant with federal pesticide residue limits, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report

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FDA Issues Guidance to Allow “Co-Manufacturers” Additional Time to Implement Certain Supply-Chain Program Requirements

Posted on November 3, 2017

As our readership is well aware, three of the rules created to implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) – Preventive Controls for Human Foods, Preventive Controls for Animal

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FDA Releases Proposed Rule Seeking to Revoke Health Claim that Soy Protein Reduces Risk of Heart Disease

Posted on October 30, 2017

Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has evaluated health claims on packaged foods to ensure that they are adequately substantiated. A health claim characterizes the relationship between

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New NARMS Report Shows Mixed Results on Antibiotic Resistance

Posted on October 26, 2017

The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), established in 1996, is a collaborative program of state and local public health departments and universities, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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FSMA Update: FDA Launches Web Page with Compliance Dates

Posted on October 24, 2017

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) introduced a new web page that consolidates the compliance dates for the Agency’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules. The rules that include

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FDA Commissioner Gottlieb indicates future of FDA’s role in defining claims such as “healthy”

Posted on October 20, 2017

As previously reported on this blog, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received a Citizen Petition from KIND in December 2015 requesting that the Agency revisit the definition of

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FDA Releases Guidance Documents Concerning Animal Food CGMPs and the FSMA “Solely Engaged” Exemptions

Posted on October 19, 2017

As previously covered on this blog, the Final Rule for Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals, 80 Fed. Reg. 56170

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San Francisco Ordinance Requires Grocery Chains to Disclose Antibiotic Use in Meat

Posted on October 13, 2017

For years, FDA, USDA, and various industry stakeholders have sought to tackle public health concerns associated with the use of medically important antibiotics to promote growth or feed efficiency in

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FDA Announces November 2017 Public Meetings Concerning Its Agricultural Biotechnology Education and Outreach Initiative

Posted on October 12, 2017

On April 18, 2017, as the House Committee on Appropriations marked up the FY 2017 agriculture spending bill, more than 65 agriculture and food industry groups sent a letter to

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