Food & Beverage Litigation & Regulatory Update

Category: FDA

  • Pew Report Reviews Animal Antibiotic Labeling Under New FDA Policy

    The Pew Charitable Trusts Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming has published an issue brief concluding that gaps in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) guidance for antibiotic use in livestock have allowed “some injudicious practices to persist.” Released in December 2013, FDA Guidance for Industry #213 aims to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria by…

  • Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging FDA’s Inaction on Mercury Labeling

    A federal court has granted summary judgment for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and Mercury Policy Project (MPP) alleging that the agency has egregiously delayed a response to the organizations’ 2011 petition urging FDA to require the labeling of…

  • FDA Finalizes Calorie-Disclosure Rules for Restaurants and Vending Machines

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized two rules under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that require chain restaurants and vending machine operators to disclose calorie information on menus or at the point of purchase. Generating more than 1,100 public comments, the federal rules aim to standardize labeling requirements “to…

  • CSPI Seeks Disclosure of Sesame Seeds on Food Labels

    The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has filed a citizen petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking a rule that would require sesame seeds and sesame products to be disclosed on food labels in the same way that allergens, such as milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat,…

  • U.S. Codex Delegates Schedule Meeting to Discuss Standards for Fats and Oils

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety and the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition have announced a January 13, 2015, public meeting in College Park, Maryland, to discuss draft U.S. positions for consideration during the 24th Session of the Codex Committee on Fats…

  • Missouri Court Allows Tainted Cantaloupe Claims Against Safety-Audit Firm

    A federal court in Missouri has denied the motion to dismiss filed by a food-safety company responsible for auditing conditions at the Jensen Farms cantaloupe facility some six weeks before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspected the farm and found the Listeria strains associated with a nationwide outbreak that allegedly sickened the plaintiff. West…

  • CSPI Seeks Data from FDA About Raw Milk Drug Residue Survey

    The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Freedom of Information Act for “the data collected by the Center for Veterinary Medicine under its Raw Milk Drug Residue Survey.” According to CSPI, FDA conducted the survey in 2012 “because excess and…

  • Public Interest Groups Sue FDA over Animal Drug Approvals

    The Center for Food Safety and two other public interest organizations have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking to overturn its approval of 11 animal drugs containing ractopamine hydrochloride on the ground that the agency failed to undertake the analysis purportedly required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)…