Category: Issue 679
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OEHHA Determines Coffee Poses “No Significant Risk of Cancer”
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has determined that coffee will not be required to carry a label indicating that it contains chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm pursuant to the state’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65). According to the notice, “Coffee, a unique…
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Cornucopia Institute Issues Report on Organic Grain Fraud
The Cornucopia Institute has released “The Turkish Infiltration of the U.S. Organic Grain Market: How Failed Enforcement and Ineffective Regulations Made the U.S. Ripe for Fraud and Organized Crime,” a report arguing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has failed to “curb the infiltration of questionable organic grain imports” into the U.S. food supply.…
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Canada to Revise Beer Compositional Standards
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has proposed changes to its compositional standards of beer, ale, stout, porter and malt liquor “to allow for innovation within the beer category while still preserving product integrity and to better reflect the tastes and needs of consumers.” The proposed amendments would update the definition of beer to allow the…
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FDA to Hold Public Meeting on Cultured Meat
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will host a public meeting on cultured meat, poultry and seafood on July 12, 2018. In a press release, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb asserted that the agency governs “both substances used in the manufacture of these products of animal cell culture technology and the products themselves that will be…
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National Poultry Improvement Plan Changes Accepted
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that April 2018 proposed changes to the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) will be adopted. The amendments update several provisions, including “those concerning NPIP participation, voting requirements, testing procedures, and standards.”