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FDA Issues 2026 Priority Deliverables for the Human Foods Program

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The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Human Foods Program (HFP) recently released a document explaining its 2026 Priority Deliverables....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

A New Recipe for GRAS? FDA’s Proposed Mandatory GRAS Notification Rule, BHA RFI and Congressional Reform Bills

It is no exaggeration to say that the past year has seen the most significant push to reform the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) generally recognized as safe (GRAS) process in more than two decades (see our prior...more

DLA Piper

Food and Beverage News and Trends - February 2026

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This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. FDA releases 2026 deliverables for Human Foods Program. On January 23, the Food...more

The Food Lawyers ®

FDA’s Focus on Self-Affirmed GRAS: Regulatory Recalibration and Practical Implications

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has signaled renewed regulatory focus on the long-standing practice of “self-affirmed” GRAS determinations....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FDA Releases Human Foods Program (HFP) 2026 Priority Deliverables

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Human Foods Program (HFP) published its 2026 Priority Deliverables, outlining a broad agenda under the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) strategy to advance...more

Wiley Rein LLP

MAHA Strategy Report Sets Table for Multiple Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Policy Changes

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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

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Food and Beverage News and Trends - September 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....more

Baker Donelson

How Food Manufacturers Should Prepare for Impact of MAHA Strategy Report

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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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MAHA Strategy Report Signals Potential Changes for U.S. Food Policy and Regulation

On September 9, 2025, the Make America Healthy Again Commission published the “Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy Report”. The Report sets out more than 120 actions to reshape U.S. food policy and regulation,...more

Mayer Brown

Recent Federal and State Initiatives Addressing Food Safety: MAHA Commission Driving Significant Changes in Food and Beverage...

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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

DLA Piper

Food and Beverage News and Trends - August 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....more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Chemical Update: FDA Unveils Data-Driven Assessment Tool to Rank Food Chemicals

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is overhauling its approach to post-market oversight of food chemicals, marked by the proposed rollout of a new Post-Market Assessment Prioritization Tool. The FDA first announced...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Eliminating the GRAS “Loophole”: Implications for Functional Foods and Beverages

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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

Epstein Becker & Green

The End of the Self-Affirmed GRAS Pathway?

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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

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RFK Jr. Takes Aim at GRAS Self-Affirmation Process

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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

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RFK Jr. Calls to End the Self-Affirming GRAS “Loophole”

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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

Holland & Knight LLP

HHS Explores Stronger FDA Oversight for Food Ingredients

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Gauging the Likelihood of Trump Administration FDA Reforms

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

DLA Piper

Food and Beverage News and Trends - December 2024

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On November 21, the FDA sent its proposed rule on front of package (FOP) nutrition labels to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). FOP labeling has been prioritized by the agency as part of a National...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Workers and Consumers Express Concern Over Potential Link Between Popcorn Lung and Common Consumer Products

Over the past two decades, safety officials have increased their attention towards diacetyl and its potential role in causing bronchiolitis obliterans, commonly known as “popcorn lung.” Initial concerns arose when popcorn...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

FDA Stresses CBD Safety Concerns in 15 Warning Letters and Revised Consumer Update

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In its largest mass enforcement action involving cannabidiol (CBD) yet, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced on November 25 the issuance of 15 warning letters to various companies for illegally selling products...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l May 2019

Silverman Speaks to Congressional Staff About Food Litigation Trends - Shook Partner Cary Silverman was an invited panelist at The George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School’s Law and Economics Center’s...more

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