Regulatory Oversight, Risk Management, Food Safety

FDA Releases its Expanded Decision Tree, a New Tool for Toxicity Screening of Chemicals in Food

ArentFox Schiff on 8/14/2025

On July 30, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Expanded Decision Tree (EDT), a new science-based tool designed to screen and evaluate the safety or toxicity of chemicals in food....more

FDA’s Proposed Ranking Tool Gives Public Opinion a Seat at the Food Safety Table

Wiley Rein LLP on 8/12/2025

With food policy remaining a top priority for the Trump Administration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), acting under Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has swiftly advanced a number...more

FDA Unveils a Tool for Prioritizing Food Chemicals for Post-Market Assessment

ArentFox Schiff on 7/1/2025

On June 18, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released for public comment a proposed method for ranking chemicals present in the food supply to determine which should be prioritized for post-market safety assessments....more

FDA Human Foods Priority Deliverables for FY 2025

Perkins Coie on 11/5/2024

On October 30, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) newly minted Human Foods Program (HFP) published a list of priority deliverables for Fiscal Year 2025. By way of brief background, FDA designed the HFP to...more

FSMA Update: FDA Announces Continuation of Enforcement Discretion for Co-Manufacturer Supplier Verification

Hogan Lovells on 11/18/2019

On November 6, 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in a Constituent Update that it will continue to exercise enforcement discretion with respect to certain supply-chain program requirements applicable to...more

FDA Holds Public Meeting on “A New Era of Smarter Food Safety” to Further FSMA Implementation

Hogan Lovells on 10/25/2019

On October 21, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting to engage stakeholders on the agency’s initiative, “A New Era of Smarter Food Safety,” to build on the advances that have been and are...more

Brexit snapshot: Food & Beverage

Hogan Lovells on 2/14/2019

The default legal position is that the UK will leave the EU automatically at 11pm on 29 March 2019 with no “deal” in place, unless something else is agreed. The current political deadlock in the UK is unprecedented so it is...more

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