Norton Rose Fulbright provides a quick overview of legal issues affecting food safety, including the enactment of new statutes and regulations and significant case law developments, in the US and abroad.
Recent stories include:
- Oregon and Colorado GMO-labeling initiatives fail
- Berkeley passes Measure D versus Big Soda
- FDA shoots down citizen petitions requesting ban on diet sweetener aspartame
- Government responds to post-trial motions of Peanut Corporation executives
- USDA approves poultry processing from four Chinese plants
- Health Canada announces intention to permit gluten-free claims for specially produced oats and for foods containing “gluten-free oats”
- Canadian coffee wars escalate
- FDA Warning Letter update