Category: Issue 557
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Cal/EPA Launches New Effort to List Styrene Under Prop. 65
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has announced its intent to list styrene as a chemical known to the state to cause cancer under the authoritative bodies listing mechanism of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65). Styrene is used in the manufacture of…
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USDA Seeks Public Comment on Biological Agents and Toxins Posing Serious Danger to Animal and Plant Health
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is soliciting public comment on its current list of select agents and toxins with the potential to pose a severe threat to animal or plant health or to animal or plant products. The agency’s biennial review and republication of the list is required…
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Shook Attorneys Discuss False Labeling Claims Based on Alleged Product Testing in Law360
In a recent article for Law360, Shook, Hardy & Bacon Class Actions & Complex Litigation Co-Chair Jim Muehlberger and Agribusiness & Food Safety Associate Jeff Lingwall discuss the new wave of putative class action litigation against food and nutraceutical companies brought by plaintiffs bearing product test results that allegedly indicate deviations from labeled amounts. They…