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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal critic of U.S. food systems and federal nutrition scientists, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and take on the "industrial food complex."
The Food and Drug Administration will no longer rely on state feed control officials for help with animal food ingredient approvals after choosing not to renew a long-standing agreement that supported one of its primary review pathways.
Stakeholders from the food supply chain and consumer groups highlighted the need for data uniformity across different input systems and other remaining challenges for complying with the FDA’s upcoming traceability rule.
More than a dozen ground cinnamon products have been recalled over the last year, after the Food and Drug Administration boosted efforts to monitor and test lead levels, following last year's recall of apple-cinnamon puree products linked with over 500 cases of lead poisoning in children.
Food safety stakeholders continue to warn the Food and Drug Administration that much of the supply chain is not ready to implement its traceability rule, with some arguing the deadline should be staggered or pushed back several years.
Some 300 organizations are sending a letter to congressional leaders today, appealing for a farm bill, and teams of farmers representing a cross-section of commodity groups will be fanning out across Capitol Hill this week to make the pitch in person. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum defended former President Donald Trump's tariff policy on Sunday.
The timeline for an anticipated rule requiring nutrition labels on the front of food packages has shifted to October as the Food and Drug Administration continues to analyze possible routes to take.
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking comments on how to handle approval of animal food ingredients following last week’s announcement it will not be renewing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Association of American Feed Control Officials.
Gaps in the Food and Drug Administration’s authority and a lack of risk management planning slowed the federal government and industry’s ability to bounce back from the 2022 infant formula shortage, according to a recent report by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine.
In this opinion piece, Amy DeLisio, CEO of the Dairy Council of California, discusses the significance of educating producers and consumers about Food is Medicine strategies and argues that they are critical to a healthy aging population.
