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Texas AG Spurs National Reform for General Mills

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Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton announced that General Mills has agreed to remove petroleum-based artificial dyes from its cereals and school food products throughout the U.S. by summer 2026, and from its entire U.S....more

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FDA Publishes Post-Market Assessment Tool to Rank Chemicals in Food Supply

On June 18, 2025, FDA published a proposed “Post-Market Assessment Prioritization Tool” to guide how the agency plans to rank and prioritize food chemicals under its enhanced post-market review process. FDA’s unveiling of...more

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FDA Announces “Priorities for a New FDA” and a New Vouchers Program to Address National Priorities

On June 10, 2025, FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary and Chief Medical and Science Officer Vinay Prasad published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled, “Priorities for a New FDA.”1 The article...more

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FDA Launches Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher Program: What Life Sciences Innovators Need to Know

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On June 17, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) program, a bold initiative designed to accelerate the review of therapies addressing critical national...more

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FDA Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher program comes with questions surrounding implementation

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday a “Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher” (CNPV) program, which will provide a “limited number” of vouchers to sponsors of drug products that are “aligned with...more

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FDA Commissioner Launches Pilot Program To Speed Review of Certain Drugs

On June 17, 2025, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary announced that the agency is creating a new pilot program called the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV). The program is intended...more

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FDA’s New Measures to Eliminate All Petroleum-Based Synthetic Dyes from Food

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On April 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a plan to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply. The plan is...more

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Food for Thought Implications of FDAs New Chemical Review Program

The US Food and Drug Administration recently announced a major initiative to strengthen oversight of food additives and other food-related chemicals. The agency described this as a “stronger, more systematic review process”...more

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EPA Announces Rollback of Biden-Era PFAS Rules

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On May 14th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it plans to delay or rescind PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) drinking water standards established by the Biden administration....more

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Conditional Approval Proposals for FDA: Current Context and Potential Ramifications

Drug approval is unequivocally the linchpin to any drug development effort and, given the role of the US market in the global marketplace, the drug approval standard employed by FDA remains a perennial focus of stakeholders...more

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Eliminating the GRAS “Loophole”: Implications for Functional Foods and Beverages

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On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that U.S. Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explore closing the GRAS...more

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Health Canada: Changes to the Cosmetic Regulations

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The Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning the Disclosure of Cosmetic Ingredients (SOR/2024-63) (the “Amended Cosmetic Regulations), published on April 24, 2024, took effect on October 9th (with the exception of...more

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Ban on European Patents for Plants Engineered by "New Genomic Techniques" Nearing Reality

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The European Parliament has adopted an amended European Commission proposal to regulate plants engineered using techniques such as CRISPR/Cas and ban any patenting of plants, plant parts, material, genetic information, or...more

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