Polsinelli Podcast - FDA Proposed Changes to Food Labels and What it May Mean for Manufacturers
After years of rulemaking with impassioned input from food producers, industry stakeholders, and consumer groups, on December 27, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) published a final rule titled “Food...more
FDA has consistently pursued its aim of encouraging US consumers to eat less salt. As we have previously written, FDA issued a Voluntary Sodium Reduction guidance in October 2021 to support the reduction of average sodium...more
FDA recently announced it does not object to the use of certain qualified health claims regarding the relationship between the consumption of cocoa flavanols in high flavanol cocoa powder and a reduced risk of cardiovascular...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting comment on the availability of nutrition, ingredient, and allergen information online for packaged foods sold through online grocery shopping platforms. FDA explains...more
The US Food and Drug Administration issued a proposed rule on September 29 setting forth new criteria for the labeling of food products with the nutrient content claim “healthy” intended to help consumers more easily navigate...more
On June 29, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and Office of Food Policy and Response released a list of draft and final guidance topics that are a priority for...more
Cell-based or cell-cultured seafood products (seafood products grown in a bioreactor from tissue specimens from fish / seafood) are not yet commercially available, but the FDA is working to decide how they will be labeled. ...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - USDA Receives Hundreds Of Comments On Hemp Interim Rule - Two weeks after opening a comment period on an interim final rule on hemp farming, the U.S. Department of Agriculture...more
The deadline to comply with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts label final rules is quickly approaching. Per the new rules, companies with annual sales totaling $10 million or more...more
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its “Industry Resources on the Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label” webpage questions and answers, stating that the agency does not intend to take enforcement...more
Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance announcing that the agency intends to exercise enforcement discretion to allow the use of “potassium chloride salt” as an alternative common or usual name...more
Last week, the FDA released a draft guidance regarding the low calorie sweetener, allulose, and stated the agency will not treat this ingredient as contributing to total or added sugars content in the nutrition information....more
Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more
From a national action plan on combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria in food-producing animals and a presidential task force on fishing and seafood fraud, to proposed rules on nutrition and supplement fact labeling, the...more