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Product Regulation and Metrology Bill Receives Royal Assent

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The Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025 reforms the UK's post-Brexit product safety, metrology, and consumer protection frameworks....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FDA Targets 52 “Obsolete” Food Standards of Identity for Revocation

On July 17, 2025, FDA announced several rulemakings aimed at modernizing its standards of identity (SOIs) for food products – regulations that define what a food must contain and how it must be made to lawfully bear a...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Think Tank Argues for Closing GRAS Loophole

U.S. policymakers should consider reforms to close loopholes surrounding Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) substances, according to an issue brief from the America First Policy Institute. The report recommends against...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New EU Directive Modernizes Defective Product Liability to Address New Technologies

The EU Commission has adopted Directive (EU) 2024/2853, which implements a comprehensive overhaul of the 1985 Directive 85/374/EEC on defective product liability (“New PLD”). The new framework, which complements Regulation...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New California Law Redefines E-Bikes

California has changed its definition of electric bicycles to clarify ambiguities about the use of throttles. Since their first introduction in the 1990s, electric bicycles, or e-bikes, have grown tremendously in popularity...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Le gouvernement du Québec publie un projet de règlement sur la réparabilité de certains biens de consommation

Le 22 janvier 2025, le gouvernement du Québec a publié un projet de règlement visant à modifier le Règlement d’application de la Loi sur la protection du consommateur existant. Selon les commentaires du gouvernement du Québec...more

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