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Food and Beverage News and Trends - March 2025 #2

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This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. Secretary Kennedy takes first steps to eliminate GRAS exception. Health and...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Week 6 in Review: Tracking Moves on Healthcare, National Security, Government Contracts, and DEI

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The administration also turned its focus to copper imports, bird flu, and a proposed new path to American citizenship....more

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Food and Beverage News and Trends - February 2025 #2

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This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. Jim Jones, Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods at the US Food and Drug...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Administration Outlook: Four Food Industry Insights, From RFK to FDA and SNAP to Tariffs

With the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services, as well as Brooke Rollins as secretary of the Department of Agriculture, key leadership impacting the nation's food supply is changing...more

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President Trump Creates “Make America Healthy Again” Commission

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On February 13, 2025, immediately following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation and swearing in as secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO)...more

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The State AG Report – 02.13.2025

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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: ·Republican AGs Have Beef with Nutritional Standards Report...more

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Republican AGs Have Beef with Nutritional Standards Report

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Twenty-three Republican AGs submitted a comment letter to HHS and Department of Agriculture officials opposing aspects of the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee; the Dietary Guidelines are...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

The Congressional Review Act: What It Is and How It Might Be Used in the 119th Congress

Republicans will soon find themselves in in control of the entire federal government—the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives—for the first time since 2018. This new power dynamic in Washington has already...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Inaugural Meeting of the White House’s Pricing Strike Force Focuses on Healthcare, Groceries, and Junk Fees

The Biden Administration recently convened the first meeting of its Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing (Strike Force), an interagency initiative announced in March 2024 to “root out and stop illegal corporate behavior...more

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AI Provisions in Biden’s FY 2025 Budget Proposal — AI: The Washington Report

President Joe Biden’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars allocated towards executive branch AI efforts. The budget proposal’s AI-related provisions can be sorted into three...more

McGlinchey Stafford

“Hemp-Derived” THC in Massachusetts: Navigating the Regulatory Maze

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The recent proliferation of intoxicating hemp products containing “hemp-derived” THCs in Massachusetts restaurants, liquor stores, and convenience shops has sparked debate among state officials in determining whether these...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

FAQs About Bias In Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Avoiding the Dystopian Potential of an Utopian Tool

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Why is bias in AI an issue? One reason: A natural human fear of trusting AI’s vaunted omniscience, whether for individuals or groups. AI is a blessing for business and big data analysis of every kind, the support of...more

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Lawmakers Continue Push for Review of Outbound Investments

Revised draft legislation circulated June 13th is the most recent salvo in a long-running effort that is increasingly likely to create an unprecedented outbound investment review mechanism in the United States. ...more

King & Spalding

Biden Administration Releases Industrial Base Reports

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Reports identify weaknesses and introduce plans to strengthen certain critical supply chains - On February 24, 2022, the Biden Administration released a Plan to Revitalize American Manufacturing and Secure Critical Supply...more

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Summary of Agency Class Deviations Implementing Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate

The Government Contracts and Global Trade Group is pleased to provide a summary of some of the key class deviations and other memoranda published by U.S. Government agencies implementing the federal contractor COVID-19...more

Lathrop GPM

Biden Administration Unveils Strategic Roadmap to Address PFAS

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Earlier this week, the Biden Administration announced a monumental plan to address impacts stemming from per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS). While the announcement details the ongoing and future efforts of eight...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Overview of President Biden’s Non-Compete Agreement Executive Order 

On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Order, breathtaking in scope, asserts as a key goal the desire to improve the lives of consumers through...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Finding the Weak Links – President Biden Executive Order Demands Review of Critical U.S. Supply Chains

On February 24, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14017, “Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains,” requiring a review of global supply chains that support key U.S. industries in an attempt to improve supply...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

The Federal Advisor, March 2021

Derek Harley published a monthly federal policy and political update, a high-level review of the issues being discussed in the U.S. Congress and the Administration, providing a look at the month ahead, as well as a "deeper...more

Roetzel & Andress

Ohio Legislature Drops Multi-Billion Dollar COVID Relief Plan

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The Ohio Legislature dropped a multi-billion dollar COVID relief plan on Tuesday afternoon intended to improve public health and provide support to entities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The $2.15 billion...more

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Biden Orders Reviews of Critical Supply Chains

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On Wednesday, February 24, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order (Order) directing a series of reviews of global supply chains - the latest government effort to create more resilient and secure supply chains for...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

In NY, CBD Manufacturers And Distributors Now Must Be Licensed

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Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the New York State Department of Health is now accepting applications from businesses seeking licensure to operate as cannabinoid hemp processors, retailers, or distributors. Cannabinoid...more

Hogan Lovells

Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – October # 2

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In Washington: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House physician announced late Thursday.  The President tweeted at 12:54 a.m. Friday: “Tonight, @FLOTUS...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

COVID-19 Policy Update #21

Leaders of Small Business Committee Reach Consensus on Bill to Extend PPP Loan Deadline, Senate Fails to Clear Measure by Unanimous Consent as Phase 4 Negotiations Likely to Dominate June - Bipartisan leaders of the Senate...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Farm Bill’s Impact on Hemp and CBD – and How Some States are Reacting

While the legal landscape continues to evolve in the cannabis industry, making entry into the space a potentially risky proposition, the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (the “Farm Bill”) can be a real game...more

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