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Monday, April 07, 2025
Consumer and produce advocacy groups are celebrating the finalization of a highly anticipated rule updating how farms assess pre-harvest water quality, but remain skeptical about implementation measures.
In this opinion piece, Sarah Gallo, Vice President of Product Policy for the Consumer Brands Association, responds to a recent op-ed by Nancy Brown at The American Heart Association (AHA) by outlining the decade of proactive and innovative work the food industry has done alongside the FDA to ensure Americans are fully educated on what is in their food.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced a long-awaited final rule imposing requirements on farmers for ensuring that agricultural water doesn't contaminate produce with dangerous pathogens.
In this opinion piece, Nathan Sukhov, Manager of Rogue Origin, addresses the issue of the hemp industry and the FDA's position on CBD while divulging how raising the allowable THC threshold in the hemp plant and its products could improve the quality of hemp-based products to affect the industry positively.
The Food and Drug Administration will continue to take the lead in regulating intentional genomic alterations in animals, with assistance from the Agriculture Department on specific products, FDA said Wednesday.
Groups representing consumers and state governments say FDA's budget plans for 2025 mean a de facto cut for essential state programs that are already underfunded. The result could lead to failure to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act.
The positive reception that biotech wheat has received in Argentina is being closely watched in the U.S., but experts say any genetically engineered variety faces a long road to approval here.
In this opinion piece, Chuck Conner, President and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, pushes for the FDA to modernize with the times on animal feed amendments while highlighting how these innovations yield substantial benefits for farmers and consumers.
Lawmakers are back in D.C. with four weeks until the Memorial Day deadline set by House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., for moving a new farm bill. Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse about key details of the bill, most notably on cuts to nutrition spending.