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Food, Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Regulatory Update, Issue 1

Food, Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Regulatory Update, Issue 1

In this issue:

Top Stories

  • FDA Proposes Far-Reaching Changes to Nutrition Facts Panel
  • FDA Settles with Food Safety Advocates to Complete Food Safety Modernization Act by 2016
  • FDA Proposes Draft Methodological Approach to Identifying High-Risk Foods under FSMA
  • Harvard School of Public Health Highlights Cosmetic Ingredient Safety
  • Food Industry Forms Group to Stop Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods
  • FDA Reopens Comment Period on Draft Industry Guidance on Evaporated Cane Juice as a Food-Labeling Term
  • 2014 Farm Bill Becomes Law

Regulatory Updates

  • FDA Announces Revision of the Nutrition and Supplemental Facts Labels
  • FDA Reopens Comment Period on Draft Industry Guidance on Evaporated Cane Juice as a Food-Labeling Term
  • USDA's Food and Nutrition Service Promulgates Final Rule Revising WIC Food Packages
  • USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Extends Comment Period on Environmental Impact Statement for Determination of Nonregulated Status of
  • Herbicide-Resistant Corn and Soybeans
  • USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service Issues Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact for the Determination of Nonregulated Status of Soybeansthat are Genetically Engineered for Insect Resistance
  • USDA's Food and Nutrition Service Issues Proposed Rule on Local School Wellness Policy Implementation Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
  • USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Reopens Comment Period on Proposed Rule Allowing Importation of Fresh Beef from a Region in Brazil
  • HHS and FDA Deny Hearings on Final Rule Regarding Irradiation in the Production, Processing, and Handling of Food
  • USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service Discontinues Qualitative (30 mL) Campylobacter Analysis for Young Chickens
  • APHIS Solicits Members for General Conference Committee of the National Poultry Improvement Plan
  • Agricultural Marketing Service Announces Changes in Size and Grade Requirements

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Enforcement Updates

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  • Warning Letters

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