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LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - FDA Announces Update on Human Foods Program Restructuring - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a news release with an update on the restructuring of its Human Foods...more
The USDA’s wide-sweeping regulatory update may affect your company, even if it is only a small ingredient in the multi-billion dollar organic foods supply chain. On January 18, 2023, the USDA National Organic Program...more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a final rule amending organic regulations “to strengthen oversight and enforcement of the production, handling, and sale of organic agricultural products.”...more
Shook Senior Counsel Talks FDA on NOSH Podcast - NOSH has interviewed Shook Senior Counsel John Johnson for an episode of its podcast. The episode discusses the implications of the December 2022 Reagan-Udall Foundation...more
Grimmway Farms’ President & CEO Jeff Huckaby joins Stoel Rives agribusiness partner Adam Dittman to discuss Grimmway Farms and its rise to becoming a global produce leader and the world’s largest producer of carrots. The two...more
The decades-long battle over organic certification of hydroponically grown foods is poised for resolution, with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals set to decide an appeal by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) in a case that...more
In this episode, host Jonathan Havens, co-chair of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness (FBA) Practice, speaks with Paul Schiefer, senior director of sustainability at Amy’s Kitchen, which started in a...more
Host Kermit Nash, co-chair of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness (FBA) Practice, speaks with Anthony Sepich, CEO of Firm client Pipeline Foods, a supplier of organic and non-GMO food and feed...more
In this episode, host Jonathan Havens speaks with Kermit Nash, both of whom are co-chairs of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness (FBA) Practice, about how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the...more
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP) issued a proposed rule in early August that would amend the organic regulations to strengthen oversight...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - France to Ban Mass Culling of Male Chicks - France’s agriculture minister has reportedly announced that the country will prohibit the mass culling of male chicks shortly after they...more
The United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020. While the EU and the UK lastly agreed on a withdrawal agreement and thus can avoid an unregulated Brexit, specific rules for trading UK goods on the EU...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Oregon Sens. Request Changes To USDA Hemp Rule - In a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) have requested changes...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - USDA Issues Interim Rule On Hemp Production - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an interim final rule “specifying the rules and regulations to produce hemp.” The...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - FDA Warns Company Selling CBD Oil - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published a warning letter it sent in September 2019 to a company selling cannabidiol (CBD) oil as a...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Standardize Food Date Labels - U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) have introduced the Food Date Labeling Act, which aims...more
Shook Takes the Pulse of General Counsel on Maturation of Global Cannabis Market - More than half of in-house counsel surveyed in a new white paper by Shook, Hardy & Bacon plan to increase legal spending in the next two...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Medical Groups Call for SSB Taxes- The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association have issued a policy statement calling for taxes on sugar-sweetened...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - FDA to Hold CBD Public Hearings - U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb reportedly said in a February 27, 2019, hearing before the House...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - CBD Banned from New York Restaurants, in Limbo in Idaho - New York City’s health department has reportedly ordered restaurants to stop serving products that contain cannabidiol...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Some FDA Inspectors Called to Work During Shutdown - In a series of tweets, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced that about 200 food...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - USDA, FDA Announce Joint Regulation of Cell-Cultured Livestock and Poultry Products - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Codex Office to Finalize Strategic Plan - The U.S. Codex Office has scheduled a meeting for November 2, 2018, to brief the public and receive comments on its 2019-2023 strategic...more
The Government has released its first batch of technical notices which aim to prepare UK citizens and businesses for an exit from the EU without a Withdrawal Agreement on 29 March 2019. ...more
Proposal Would Move Food Regulation to USDA - As part of a proposal to reorganize several federal agencies, the Trump administration has recommended that food-safety regulatory oversight be shifted to the U.S. Department...more