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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, March 04, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday night that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will be nominated as interior secretary. Farm groups will be counting on the administration to roll back a series of regulations at Interior.
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.
FDA's newly appointed deputy commissioner for human foods says a proposed reorganization of the agency should correct longstanding structural flaws exposed by last year's infant formula crisis.
Jim Jones, the FDA's newly designated deputy commissioner of human foods, sees partnering with food industry stakeholders as crucial to accomplishing the food safety goals of the agency.
Stakeholders offered a tepid response to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf’s unveiling Tuesday of a new Humans Foods Program, which Califf said he believes will fundamentally transform the way FDA oversees the U.S. food supply.
The Food and Drug Administration is being closely watched with an anticipated announcement expected January 31 on the direction the agency plans to take following the scathing Reagan-Udall report recommendations on improving FDA’s focus of food. Other work this year for the agency includes finalizing the Food Safety Modernization Act’s agricultural worker rule and reauthorizing the Animal Drug User Fee Act.
The idea of requiring nutrition labels on the front of food packages to disclose sugar and fat content is getting increased attention ahead of the first White House conference in more than half a century on hunger and nutrition policy.
Daniel Whitley has been tapped to be the new administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service, Bianca Moebius-Clune will lead American Farmland Trust’s Farmers Combat Climate Change Initiative, and Hanna Abou-El-Seoud has been promoted to director of corporate affairs at Nestlé.