Category: FDA
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FDA Issues Industry Guidance on Prior Notice of Imported Foods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance for the food industry titled “Guidance for Industry: Prior Notice of Imported Food Questions and Answers (Edition 3).” Intended to address questions received since publication of the second edition in May 2004, the guidance includes information related to the Food Safety Modernization Act, which…
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FDA to Revise Spent Grain Proposal
After reportedly receiving more than 2,000 comments criticizing its proposal to tighten regulations concerning the transaction of spent grain between brewers and farmers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has apparently decided to revise its original plan, stating that it will release an amended version of the proposal this summer. According to news sources, brewers, who…
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FDA Secures Strong Response on Reducing Antibiotic Use in Animal Husbandry
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has secured the participation of all but one animal drug company in the agency’s plan to phase out the use of medically important antimicrobials in food animals for food production purposes, such as artificial weight gain. Each company has “committed in writing to seek withdrawal of approvals for…
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FDA Seeks Comments on FSMA Amendments
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that seeks information to help the agency “implement and enforce” amendments to the reportable food registry (RFR) provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Among other things, the new provisions permit…
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CSPI Sues FDA for Delay in Response to Mercury-Labeling Petition
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and Mercury Policy Project have sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seeking a declaration that the agency’s delay in responding to their citizen petition on labeling fish with high levels of mercury is unreasonable and violates the Administrative Procedure Act and Federal Food, Drug,…
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FDA Issues Final Rule on Use of Vitamin D2 Bakers Yeast
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected objections filed after publishing its final rule amending “the food additive regulations authorizing the use of vitamin D2 bakers yeast as a source of vitamin D2 and as a leavening agent in yeast-leavened baked products at levels not to exceed 400 International Units (IU) of vitamin…
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FDA to Discuss EIS for Proposed Produce Standards
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will convene an April 4, 2014, public meeting in College Park, Maryland, to discuss “the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed rule to establish standards for the growing, harvesting, packing and holding of produce for human consumption (the produce safety proposed rule).” The agency…
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Industry Groups Submit Comments to FDA Trans Fat Docket
The National Association of Margarine Manufacturers (NAMM) and American Bakers Association (ABA) have submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) rulemaking docket about the agency’s tentative determination to remove partially hydrogenated oils from the generally recognized as safe (GRAS) list. NAMM contends that “the great majority of margarine products no longer contain…