One month after leaving FDA, I was asked to advise a company that was about to undergo a food recall for the first time.
In my tenure at the Food and Drug Administration, leading communications
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Sessions clears way for food companies to ignore FDA guidance
Those guidance documents the Food and Drug Administration hands out to food manufacturers and others don’t mean as much as they once did. The Department of Justice has changed its policy so government lawyers will
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Do FDA ‘guidance’ documents skirt the regulatory process?
The Food and Drug Administration’s penchant for “guidance” documents as opposed to formal rulemaking needs to end, according to a business-oriented public interest legal foundation.
“FDA’s turn away from notice-and-comment rulemaking has an obvious motive:
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FDA commissioner issues new guidance for menu labeling
Ahead of the effective date for those new, long-awaited menu labeling regulations, which is May 7, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is out with some non-binding “guidance” to help with implementation. FDA Commissioner
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EU to set acrylamide benchmarks in 2018: Don’t burn the toast
The European Union and the United States are taking different approaches to a fairly recently discovered chemical that’s been in food as long as men and women have been cooking with fire.
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Beach Beat: Sprout, sprout, let it all out — comment now
Fresh, raw sprouts are among the most notorious of offenders in terms of foodborne illness outbreaks with almost 2,500 confirmed victims, including three deaths, in the past 20 years in the U.S. alone.
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FDA updates draft guidance for dietary supplement industry
Editor’s Note: This was originally published by the FDA on Aug. 11, 2016. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a revised draft guidance to improve dietary supplement companies’ new dietary ingredient (NDI) premarket
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