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USDA seeks information regarding revisions to digital disclosure option for bioengineered foods

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has published a Request for Information (RFI) asking interested parties to submit comments regarding potential revisions to the current...more

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Court invalidates text message option under Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

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A court has invalidated the portion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS’s) final rule implementing the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (BE Rule) that allows...more

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USDA seeks comments on annual updates to list of bioengineered foods

On July 22, 2022, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) opened up public comment on a proposed rule to make two changes to the List of Bioengineered Foods (the List). The National...more

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USDA Issues Guidance to Facilitate Compliance with Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

Key Takeaways: What Happened: USDA published guidance describing two pathways for regulated parties to demonstrate that a product is exempt from federal bioengineered food labeling requirements....more

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AMS Releases Draft Instructions on Testing Methods for the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has released Draft Instructions on Testing Methods (Draft Instructions) for use in compliance with the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure...more

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AMS Releases Draft Instructions on Validating a Refining Process for National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking public comment on draft instructions to validate a refining process under the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard...more

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Implementation Date For The USDA’s National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

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The implementation date for the disclosure obligations triggered by the USDA’s final rule establishing a national standard for the disclosure of bioengineered ingredients in certain food products is January 1, 2020 for...more

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Snack Bar Class Action Powers On After USDA Action and FDA Inaction

Unlike a fine wine, a snack bar does not get better with age. Neither, apparently, does litigation. Last month, Judge William H. Pauley III in the Southern District of New York lifted a years-long stay in a lawsuit against...more

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Final Rule Regarding the Labeling of Bioengineered Foods

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On December 21, 2018, the Agricultural Marketing Service (“AMS”) of the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) issued its long-anticipated final rule establishing requirements for the disclosure of food that is...more

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Bioengineered Food Disclosure Rules Finalized, Require Disclosure of “Detectable” GMOs

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On December 21, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published its final rule implementing the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) signed into law by...more

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USDA Issues Rules on Bioengineered Food Disclosures

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The USDA issued rules on December 20, 2018 requiring the disclosure of the presence of bioengineered foods and ingredients in food products, called the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (the Standard). The...more

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Take a Bite of the New Mandatory National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

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The Agricultural Marketing Service’s mandatory disclosure standard for bioengineered foods has given industry something to chew on. Our Food, Beverage & Cosmetics team answers some questions the new National Bioengineered...more

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USDA Releases Final Rule On GM Labeling

On December 21, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service announced a final rule on the National Bioengineered (BE) Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS)....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

USDA Releases Long-Awaited Food Labeling Requirements for GMO Products

While most of us were making our final holiday plans, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) published the long-awaited rule to establish labeling requirements for foods that contain...more

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USDA Publishes Final Rule Establishing GMO Disclosure Requirements

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the final rule establishing a National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard on December 20, 2018. The rule requires food makers, including food manufacturers, importers...more

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USDA’s AMS Issues Final Rule on National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

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Yesterday the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released its final rule implementing the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) passed by Congress in July 2016. In...more

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USDA Sends National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard to OMB While Facing Lawsuit for Failing to Meet Statutory Deadline

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On August 1, 2018, two consumer groups sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue, and Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Administrator Bruce Summers for failing to meet the statutory...more

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The USDA’s Proposed National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

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On May 3, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) released its much-anticipated proposed rule to establish a national standard for the disclosure of bioengineered ingredients in certain food products. ...more

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USDA Announces Proposed Rule for Bioengineered Food Disclosures

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On May 4, 2018, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a long-awaited proposed rule that would require food manufacturers and other entities that label foods for retail sale to disclose information about...more

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USDA’s AMS Issues Proposed Rule on National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

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On May 3, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued its proposed rule implementing the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) passed by Congress in July 2016....more

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Food Regulatory Update: Bioengineered Disclosure Coming to a Food Label Near You; Menu Labeling Rule Goes Live Today, May 7th –...

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On May 4, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that, if finalized, will provide a mandatory uniform national standard for...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update | May 2018

USDA Releases Proposed Bioengineered Ingredients Standard - The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released the proposed National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard,...more

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Snack Bar Class Action is KIND-ly Stayed Pending USDA Regulation on Bioengineered Food

Earlier this month, Judge William H. Pauley III in the Southern District of New York stayed a lawsuit against the snack bar maker KIND LLC, styled as a class action, alleging that KIND falsely marketed its products as “all...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update | September 2017

Shook Partners Lindsey Heinz and Katie Gates Calderon, with Associate Hillary Nicholas, have authored an article for Law360 discussing regulations related to the use of photography during a U.S. Food and Drug Administration...more

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3 Steps Food Manufacturers Can Take Now To Prepare For Federal Labeling Regulations

Consumers seem to be more eager than ever to know what they are eating and what journey it traveled to move from farm to table. In this era of authenticity, artificial is out; organic is in....more

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