Agribusiness, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

HHS, FDA Issue RFI on Deregulatory Plan to Lower Costs and Empower Providers

Hogan Lovells on 5/15/2025

Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a broad request for information (RFI) seeking input on how to “dramatically deregulate across all areas the Department touches.”1 It specifically...more

Food and Beverage News and Trends - May 2025

DLA Piper on 5/6/2025

On April 22, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced coming FDA actions aiming “to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply” and to prompt the food industry...more

DEA’s Plan to Reschedule Cannabis: Implications and Insights

McCarter & English, LLP on 5/6/2024

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice proposed reclassifying cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. The move follows an August 2023 recommendation from the Department of Health...more

All the Outcomes of a Marijuana Reschedule

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/23/2024

Between LinkedIn, Twitter, the media, and diehard marijuana investors, there is more noise and froth in the industry about a marijuana reschedule than I’ve seen since Washington and Colorado legalized it back in 2012. When...more

From Schedule I to Schedule III: Potential Shift in Marijuana’s Legal Status

McGlinchey Stafford on 8/31/2023

Major news broke on August 30, 2023, as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it would recommend moving marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, as first reported by Riley Griffin for...more

U.S. National Security Issues in Cross-Border Food, Beverage & Agribusiness Deals

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 11/4/2021

On October 28, 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced the Food Security is National Security Act of 2021 (the “Act”). Among other things, the Act would require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United...more

Temporary Food Labeling Policies in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Polsinelli on 6/20/2020

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March relaxed its labeling requirements for food manufacturers and restaurants to aid the distribution and sale of food...more

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