Category: Issue 425
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FDA Report Targets Compliance, Enforcement Data
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a report outlining eight proposals to make its “publicly available compliance and enforcement data more accessible and user-friendly.” Under the initiatives described in the report, FDA will explore different ways to (i) “improve data quality and facilitate more timely data disclosure”; (ii) expedite error reporting; (iii) “present…
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Federal Agencies to Share Non-Public Information About GE Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it will share with other federal agencies confidential business information relating to genetically engineered (GE) plants submitted under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. EPA has entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to this effect with the Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of…
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Labor Department to Reconsider Parental Exemption to Child Labor in Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which had sought in 2011 to increase protections for children working in agriculture, has agreed to ”re-propose the portion of its regulation on child labor in agriculture interpreting the ‘parental exemption.’” The original proposal sought to update a 40-year-old rule in light of data showing that “children are significantly…
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Study Advocates Penny-Per-Ounce Soft Drink Tax
A recent study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and American Heart Association claims that a penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages would reduce consumption by 15 percent among adults ages 25 to 64 years. Y. Claire Wang, et al., “A Penny-Per Ounce Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Would Cut Health and Cost Burdens of Diabetes,”…
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ANA Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference Slated for March in D.C.
The Association of National Advertisers’ 2012 Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference will reportedly target how best “to navigate today’s complex marketing landscape and remain on the cutting edge in an ever-challenging legal and regulatory environment.” Slated for March 28-29, 2012, in Washington, D.C., the conference will include sessions on (i) global views of online behavioral…
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Advocacy Group Publishes BPA Action Plan for Federal Agencies
The Center for Progressive Reform has issued a paper titled “Protecting the Public from BPA: An Action Plan for Federal Agencies.” Contending that the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), which is used extensively in food contact materials, has negative health effects in low doses and that federal agencies have failed, to date, to regulate it, the…