Food & Beverage Litigation & Regulatory Update

Tag: allergen

  • CSPI Urges Dannon to Remove Carmine from Yogurt

    The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has asked Dannon to stop using carmine—a dye reportedly derived from the dried, crushed bodies of cochineal insects—to fruit-flavored yogurt to give it a pink color. According to the advocacy watchdog, Dannon’s practice not only cheats consumers, “who might expect that the named fruits—and not the…

  • Fast Food Consumption Allegedly Linked to Asthma, Allergies

    Research based on the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase Three has reportedly linked fast food consumption to asthma and eczema severity in kids. Philippa Ellwood, et al., “Do fast foods cause asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema? Global findings from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase Three,” Thorax,…

  • FDA Seeks Comments on Setting Food Allergen Thresholds

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking comments and other information, including data, to help determine whether the agency can establish regulatory thresholds for major food allergens such as milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, and soybeans. In a recent notice, FDA states that although “[We have] used several risk management…

  • Nestlé Hypoallergenic Infant Formula Undergoing Testing in Australia

    According to Nestlé Australia, some consumers feeding their babies NAN H.A. [hypoallergenic] 1 Gold® infant formula have complained about alleged adverse health effects. A news source indicates that purchasers have reported in online reviews that their children have experienced rashes, dark green stools, dehydration, and vomiting, among other symptoms. Calling product safety and quality a…

  • Milk Allergen Recall Spawns Supply-Chain Litigation

    A company that supplies specialty ingredients such as vitamins, chemicals and carotenoids to food producers has sued one of its suppliers, alleging that the company was forced to recall from customers more than 33,000 pounds of chromium amino acid chelate after learning that it contained a milk allergen. DSM Nutritional Prods., LLC v. Triarco Indus., Inc.,…

  • FDA Seeks Comments on Recordkeeping Burdens for Certain Beer Makers

    FDA has issued a request for comments on a proposed information collection that will add the manufacturers of certain beers as respondents to its labeling regulations and seeks Office of Management and Budget approval of allergen labeling for these beers. The agency explains that after the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau determined that…

  • FDA Issues Second Annual Reportable Food Registry Report

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published its second annual Reportable Food Registry (RFR) report summarizing information submitted by manufacturers, processors, packers and holders through the online Food Safety Portal from September 8, 2010, to September 7, 2011. Covering all human and animal food/feed regulated by FDA “except infant formula and dietary supplements,” RFR…

  • TTB to Require Labeling of Cochineal Extract and Carmine in Wine, Malt Beverages

    The U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has issued a final rule ordering “the disclosure of the presence of cochineal extract and carmine on the labels of any alcohol beverage containing one or both of these color additives.” According to TTB, the rule responds to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation that…