Category: FDA
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FDA Consumer Update Clarifies Maple Syrup Labeling
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a September 2016 Consumer Update describing how to determine if a product contains real maple syrup as a flavoring agent. Specifically, the agency urges consumers to look at the ingredient list for the term “maple syrup” and not rely solely on depictions of maple leaves or…
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FDA Issues Industry Guidance on “Healthy” Labeling
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened a docket and released industry guidance on the use of the term “healthy” in the labeling of human food products. Responding to Kind LLC’s citizen petition asking the agency to align its nutrient content claim regulations with federal dietary guidance, FDA invites “public comment on the…
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NRDC, CSPI File Citizen Petition on Antibiotic Use in Livestock
Several consumer-protection groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), have filed a citizen petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the agency to withdraw approval of seven antibiotics for disease prevention and growth-promotion use in livestock and poultry. “The use of…
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FDA Extends Comment Periods for Draft Industry Guidance on Salt Reduction
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the public comment periods for draft guidance “that provides practical, voluntary sodium reduction targets for the food industry.” Titled ‘‘Voluntary Sodium Reduction Goals: Target Mean and Upper Bound Concentrations for Sodium in Commercially Processed, Packaged, and Prepared Foods,” the guidance sets short- and long-term sodium targets…
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FDA Extends Vending Machine Labeling Deadlines for Certain Food Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended until July 26, 2018, the deadline for posting the calorie counts of “certain gums, mints, and roll candy products” sold in glass-front vending machines, as well as for complying with type-size front-of-pack (FOP) labeling requirements. Published December 1, 2014, and effective December 1, 2016, the final…
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FDA Argues Time Frame for Perchlorate Decision is Reasonable
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has filed an opposition to a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking a response to several consumer groups’ petition to prohibit perchlorate, an additive currently approved for limited use in food packaging. Breast Cancer Fund v. FDA, No. 16-70878 (9th Cir., petition filed July 8, 2016). The…
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Lifeway Argues ECJ Case Unaffected by FDA Ruling
Following the release of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) final guidance finding that “evaporated cane juice” (ECJ) should be labeled as “sugar” on food products, Lifeway Foods has filed a motion arguing that the May 2016 rule should not affect the outcome of a consumer’s lawsuit against the company arguing it mislabeled its kefir…
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CSPI Urges FDA to Act on Pure Caffeine Products
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has submitted a letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf urging the agency to prohibit retail distribution of highly concentrated caffeine products, including powdered (PPC), liquid and inhaled caffeine. The recently released letter supplements CSPI’s 2014 citizen petition requesting the ban following…