[Podcast] Cellular Agriculture and the Evolving Legal/Regulatory Landscape: A Conversation with Ahmed Khan
As EBG previously reported, on March 10, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) is exploring...more
On September 9, 2025, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released its Strategy Report for combating “the childhood chronic disease crisis.” The MAHA Commission determined this crisis existed in its May 2025 MAHA...more
Last week, the Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) released its Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy Report (the Strategy Report), a follow-up to the initial MAHA Report released earlier this...more
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released the Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy (MAHA Strategy) this week. Consistent with the MAHA Strategy’s overall theme of increasing transparency and trust with the...more
Key Takeaways - What Happened: The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission has released its final Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy report. The Strategy outlines extensive executive branch actions intended to...more
The food and beverage industries are seeing a fast-changing regulatory landscape at both the federal and state levels. These efforts are being driven primarily by the US Department of Health and Human Services (the “HHS”),...more
Key Takeaways - What Happened: A leaked draft of the Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy (the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s action plan) is circulating. The draft outlines extensive executive branch...more
Since their U.S. Senate confirmations, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary have focused significant attention on one of the administration’s key policy priorities: improving the safety of...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 22, 2025, announced their intent to phase out the use of certain food additives, including petrochemical-based dyes,...more
Ingredient suppliers and food manufacturers face an uncertain supply chain landscape in which “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) self-determinations may be more closely scrutinized. The US Department of Health and Human...more
Human Health and Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has instructed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revisit and consider rulemaking regarding its Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) notification and...more
On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that U.S. Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explore closing the GRAS...more
On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) “to take steps to explore potential...more
On March 10, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), in a seismic shift, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) would “explore potential...more
On March 10, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that newly confirmed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has directed acting US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Sara Brenner to...more
On March 10, 2025, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a press release that he has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explore rulemaking to implement a...more
Through an Order that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) called an act of “radical transparency,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been directed...more
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on March 10, 2025, that he directed the acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explore potential...more
On March 10, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. initiated a significant shift in the regulation of ultra-processed foods by directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revise the GRAS (Generally Recognized...more
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kennedy recently directed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider rulemaking to revise its longstanding regulations and guidance governing...more
Since the announcement that president-elect Donald Trump would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) as the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), media reports have featured opinions from...more
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration determined in 2015 that Partially Hydrogenated Oils (“PHOs”) are not “Generally Recognized as Safe,” or GRAS. PHOs are the leading source of trans fats in the human diet. In the nutrition...more