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Food and Beverage News and Trends - March 2025 #2

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This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. Secretary Kennedy takes first steps to eliminate GRAS exception. Health and...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Maine Lawmakers Introduce First-Ever Bill to Limit PFAS in Food

While several states, including Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Maine, have moved to ban per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in cookware products, no state has yet established specific limits for PFAS levels in food. This...more

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Food and Beverage News and Trends - February 2025 #2

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This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. Jim Jones, Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods at the US Food and Drug...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Administration Outlook: Four Food Industry Insights, From RFK to FDA and SNAP to Tariffs

With the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services, as well as Brooke Rollins as secretary of the Department of Agriculture, key leadership impacting the nation's food supply is changing...more

Perkins Coie

President Trump Creates “Make America Healthy Again” Commission

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On February 13, 2025, immediately following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation and swearing in as secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO)...more

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Food and Beverage News and Trends - September 2024

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This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. USDA guideline encourages third-party certification of animal-raising and...more

Foley Hoag LLP

FDA Completes Second Premarket Consultation for Cultivated Meat Production, While Italy Bans Cell-Based Food

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Four months after completing its first premarket consultation, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared its second premarket consultation for cell-cultivated meat production. We wrote about the first premarket...more

Wiley Rein LLP

[Podcast] Food for Thought and Thoughts on Food: What to Expect in 2023

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On this episode, Amaru Sánchez and Bob Hibbert discuss trends you can expect to see in the food and drug space in the coming year. Beginning with the emerging market of cultivated protein, Amaru and Bob cover what is next for...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

GAO Report: Federal Regulation of Food-Related Issues Is Fractured

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) issued a July 2022 report to urging federal agencies to better coordinate regulatory guidance on food-related challenges, including diet-related chronic health conditions and...more

Foley Hoag LLP

USDA Seeks Comment on Cultured Meat and Poultry Labeling

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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently published an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) seeking public comment pertaining to the labeling of meat and...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Meatless Meat Regulatory Update

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On October 7, 2020, we blogged about the request by the Harvard Law Animal Law and Policy Clinic that the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) refrain from proposing regulations...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Update On Meatless Meat

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We have blogged on several occasions, most recently on June 19, 2020, about so-called “meatless meat” statutes – statutes intended to regulate the labeling of products resembling traditional meat or poultry but produced from...more

Hogan Lovells

FSIS begins implementing new adulterated products tracking system

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The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued an instruction to field personnel, FSIS Notice 49-20, to begin implementing the agency’s new Adulterated Product Monitoring...more

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Secretary Perdue Issues Letters to Governors and Industry Addressing Continuity of Meat and Poultry Processing Operations

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Late Tuesday, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue sent letters to state governors and meat and poultry processing company leaders setting forth USDA’s expectations for continued operations during the...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Environmental Update - December 2019 (Issue 9)

OHIO EPA RULEMAKINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS - Air - Stakeholder Input Requested on Potential Rules Amendments - OAC Chapter 3745-26, I/M Program Rules: Ohio EPA is requesting stakeholder input on potential amendments to...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Environmental Update - November 2019 (Issue 8)

ANNOUNCEMENTS - Air - Stakeholder Input Requested on Potential New Rules - Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Program Rules: Ohio EPA is requesting stakeholder input on potential new rules in the Ohio Administrative Code...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l September 2019 #2

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - U.S. Lawmakers Urge FDA to Act on CBD - A group of U.S. lawmakers, led by Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and James Comer (R-Ky.), have urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Environmental Update - August 2019 (Issue 6)

OHIO EPA RULEMAKINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS - Air - Availability of Draft Amended Rules for Comment - OAC Chapter 3745-110 - Nitrogen Oxides - Reasonably Available Control Technology Regulations: The Ohio Environmental...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Farm Bill’s Impact on Hemp and CBD – and How Some States are Reacting

While the legal landscape continues to evolve in the cannabis industry, making entry into the space a potentially risky proposition, the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (the “Farm Bill”) can be a real game...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l February 2019 #4

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - FDA to Hold CBD Public Hearings - U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb reportedly said in a February 27, 2019, hearing before the House...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update | February 2018

Cooke Aquaculture Fined $332,000 For Puget Sound Salmon Pen Collapse - The Washington Department of Ecology has reportedly fined Cooke Aquaculture $332,000 for violations of state water quality laws related to a net pen...more

Jones Day

United States and Australia: Comparable Food Safety Systems

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On April 19, 2017, FDA announced that both the United States and Australia have recognized each other's food safety systems as comparable to each other. This is the third time that the FDA has given this recognition to a...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

Preemption Defense in the Ninth Circuit Is “Not Dead Yet”

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) contained a scene where bodies of plague victims were brought out to the curb for collection via a cart whether or not they properly belonged there. One living fellow insists on not...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

The Patchwork Solidifies: GMO Bill Moves Forward in the House

The proposed Federal regulation of GMOs is proceeding. Following the White House’s recent action on GMOs, Representative Pompeo’s “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act” (H.R. 1599) was passed by the House Agriculture Committee...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

GMO FOOD LABELING – THE NEXT CHAPTER

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The controversy continues regarding changes to food labeling laws. In a proverbial nutshell, the issue is whether food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) should include labels that disclose that the...more

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