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Jan 13, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Veronica Colas
[co-author: Chigozie Akah]On December 19, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its long-awaited final rule updating the requirements for when the term “healthy” can be used as an implied nutrient content claim in food labeling.1 Overall, the final rule looks much like the proposed rule2 , with several new elements of flexibility.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Veronica Colas |Rebecca Popkin
BackgroundPlant-based alternative foods do not have established standards of identity and therefore are non-standardized foods.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Veronica Colas
[co-author: Chigozie Akah (Law Clerk)]The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently announced a Request for Information (RFI) related to standardizing food date labeling. The agencies seek information on industry practices and preferences for date labeling, research on consumer perceptions of date labeling, and any impact date labeling may have on food waste. Comments are due February 3, 2025.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
hoganlovells.com | Veronica Colas
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently announced a Request for Information (RFI) related to standardizing food date labeling. The agencies seek information on industry practices and preferences for date labeling, research on consumer perceptions of date labeling, and any impact date labeling may have on food waste. Comments are due February 3, 2025.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | MK Barker |Meryl Bernstein |Veronica Colas
The Final Rule prohibits the sale and purchase of fake consumer reviews as well as the purchase of positive or negative consumer reviews and includes instructions on appropriate disclosures for online reviews written by company insiders.1 The Final Rule becomes effective October 21, 2024 and makes formal the prohibition of certain practices relating to consumer reviews and testimonials as unfair or deceptive under the FTC Act.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Veronica Colas |Martin Hahn
August 21, 2024 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: [co-author: Rebecca Popkin] On August 15, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance with new, voluntary sodium reduction targets for foods, with the goal of reducing sodium intake to 2,750 milligrams (mg) per day from the current estimated 3,400 mg daily intake.[1] The draft guidance sets three-year reduction targets for 163 subcategories of foods that are commercially processed and...
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Martin Hahn |Veronica Colas |Rebecca Popkin
On August 15, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance with new, voluntary sodium reduction targets for foods, with the goal of reducing sodium intake to 2,750 milligrams (mg) per day from the current estimated 3,400 mg daily intake.[1] The draft guidance sets three-year reduction targets for 163 subcategories of foods that are commercially processed and packaged, or prepared in food service establishments such as restaurants.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Veronica Colas |Brian Eyink |Elizabeth Fawell
We caution that the dates included in the Unified Agenda1 are not commitments to act on or by the date shown. Rather, they simply indicate the agencies’ aspirations. Note also that the dates for some planned actions have already passed. Rather than focusing on projected dates, the Unified Agenda is a valuable tool to identify the substantive issues the agencies consider to be priorities for rulemaking.
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May 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Veronica Colas |Elizabeth Fawell
References1 Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 89 Fed. Reg. 31962 (Apr. 25, 2024), available here. 2 Our memorandum summarizing the final transitional standards can be found here. 3 See Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patters Consistent With the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 88 Fed. Reg. 8050 (Apr. 10, 2023), available here. Our memorandum summarizing the proposed rules can be found here.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Veronica Colas |Martin Hahn
[co-author: Jamie Hannah]The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has published a Request for Information (RFI) asking interested parties to submit comments regarding potential revisions to the current bioengineered food disclosure options, including the electronic or digital link, as part of the agency’s efforts to implement direction from a 2022 court decision that invalidated this option as implemented by AMS.1 Comments are due June 10, 2024.
