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Food Law Prof Blog

Written by Donna M. Byrne, Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law

Post Frequency: 2/day

Last Entry: September 18, 2010 at 14:54:02

Race/ethnicity, family income and education associated with sugar consumption

Posted on August 13, 2009
From Eurekalert.com (Elsevier Health Sciences): St. Louis, MO, August 1, 2009 ? The intake of added sugars in the United States is excessive, estimated by the US Department of Agriculture in 1999-2002 as 17% of calories a day. Consuming foods...

Pesticides on Peaches -- Chicago Tribune Study

Posted on August 13, 2009
The Chicago Tribune had tests done on organic farmers market peaches and compared the results to USDA tests of conventional peaches. Here's the story: Pesticides on Peaches When the U.S. Department of Agriculture tested hundreds of regular washed peaches in...

Pasture to Plate -- Cool Graphics

Posted on August 12, 2009
Here's a light and engaging look at the food production and distribution system. You click on an item on a dinner plate and the following slides outline how the food got there. To see the plate, go to Pasture to...

FDA Law Blog -- great post on draft guidance on Melons, Tomatoes, and Leafy Greens

Posted on August 12, 2009
The FDA recently released Draft Guidances on Melons, Tomatoes, and Leafy Greens (blogged here). Today's FDA Law Blog (by Hyman, Phelps & McNamara law firm) has published a post by Jamie K. Wolszon & Ricardo Carvajal that provides a useful...

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Ice cream shop gets licked

Posted on August 11, 2009
OK, so this isn't about food, per se; it's about the chairs people sit in to eat the food. From the Chicago Tribune: This is a tale of frozen custard and the City of Chicago Municipal Code 10-28-805. . ....

Nano beta-carotene -- natural food color?

Posted on August 11, 2009
Here are the parts I understand: beta-carotene is the naturally occurring substance that makes carrots orange. It can be used to color foods (and if you eat really a lot of carrots, you actually turn a little orange). Nanotechnology is...

Ground beef recall due to antibiotic-resistant salmonella

Posted on August 10, 2009
From a USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service News Release: WASHINGTON, August 6, 2009 - Beef Packers, Inc., a Fresno, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 825,769 pounds of ground beef products that may be linked to an outbreak of salmonellosis,...

FDA Commissioner Hamburg -- "Effective Enforcement and Benefits to Public Health"

Posted on August 10, 2009
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg spoke to the Food and Drug Law Institute Thursday on FDA's food safety enforcement efforts. The speech and webcast are available on the FDA website. . . . Again and again, from all sides of various...

Sugar shortage?

Posted on August 10, 2009
From Bloomberg.com: Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Damaged crops from India to Brazil mean the world won?t have enough sugar for a second straight year. Global demand will exceed output by as much as 5 million metric tons in the year...

Hot dog vendor behind on $50K monthly rent

Posted on August 10, 2009
You read that right -- $50,000 a month to have a hot dog stand by the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. From the NY Daily News: Hot dog heartache has come to the Metropolitan...

Alcohol-Caffeine Drinks

Posted on August 06, 2009
This article is reminding me that I haven't had my caffeine yet today. From the Wall Street Journal: Buzz Kill? Critics Target Alcohol-Caffeine Drinks By DAVID KESMODEL State attorneys general and health-advocacy groups are urging the federal government to more...

Call for Papers, UC Dublin -- Legal Research Conference: Transnational Regulation of Food Safety and Quality, December 2009

Posted on August 06, 2009
We blogged this a couple weeks ago, but now the conference website is up. The organizers wrote me this: We would be very keen to get postgraduate students from the US to present at the conference; it would give very...

Bill Would Provide Tax Breaks for Buying Dietary Supplements

Posted on August 05, 2009
Press Release from Congressman Earl Blumenauer's website: Thursday, 30 July 2009 Washington, DC?Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore) and Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Fla) today introduced bipartisan legislation that will make those vitamins, wellness and nutritional supplements eligible for FDA-approved health claims more affordable...

FDA Draft Guidances for Tomatoes, Leafy Greens, and Melons

Posted on August 05, 2009
From the FDA Website: July 31, 2009 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published three draft guidances designed to help growers and others across the entire supply chain minimize or eliminate microbial contamination in tomatoes, leafy greens, and...

Fisheries Over-exploitation Declining

Posted on August 04, 2009
A study published in Science magazine examines the state of global fisheries after years of efforts to reduce overfishing: Rebuilding Global Fisheries Abstract: After a long history of overexploitation, increasing efforts to restore marine ecosystems and rebuild fisheries are under...

Oysters on Rebound in Chesapeake Bay

Posted on August 04, 2009
From the New York Times: After decades of overharvesting of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay and many fruitless efforts to replenish them, scientists have re-established a significant population of the shellfish along the Virginia shore. read more

Tastier Sounding Fish Names Lead to Overfishing (or Who Wants Slimehead?)

Posted on August 02, 2009
When the Slimehead was renamed the Orange Roughy, it became dinner worthy and was overfished, according to a Washington Post article: . . . An arm-long fish with the look of a prehistoric fossil, the slimehead lived in obscurity a...

NYT: 2 Agencies Take Steps to Improve Food Safety

Posted on August 01, 2009
The August 1, 2009, New York Times online includes an article on recent food safety efforts: 2 Agencies Take Steps to Improve Food Safety By WILLIAM NEUMAN Strengthening its efforts to keep a deadly strain of E. coli out of...

Food Safety Bill H.R. 2749 passes House

Posted on August 01, 2009
H.R. 2749, The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, passed the House 283-142 this week. The discussion now moves to the Senate, which is also considering S.510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Here is the H.R. 2749 Summary written...

NAIS and Amish: District Court Dismisses Suit Against USDA, Grants Michigan Dept of Ag's Motion for Summary Judgment

Posted on July 31, 2009
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund sued USDA and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) to enjoin implementation of the National Animal Identification System as it applies to Amish farmers. District Court judge, Rosemary Collyer has dismissed the case against USDA and...

Study: Organic Foods No More Nutritious than Conventional

Posted on July 31, 2009
A recent review of research findings on organically produced foods and conventional foods found no differences in most nutrients ? including vitamin C, calcium and iron. The review of 162 studies conducted over the last 50 years was commissioned by...

From the New York Times Federal

Posted on July 30, 2009
From the New York Times Federal regulators warned consumers on Tuesday not to use body-building products that are sold as nutritional supplements but may contain steroids or steroidlike substances, citing reports of acute liver injury and kidney failure...

Call for Papers: University College -- Dublin Workshop on Food Law December 4-5, 2009

Posted on July 30, 2009
This looks intriguing! . . . call for papers for an upcoming workshop on food law, organised by the postgraduate research community at the UCD School of Law. The workshop aims to bring together postgraduate researchers in the field of...

Wonder Foods, Part 2 -- Grapefruit

Posted on July 29, 2009
According to a favorite xkcd cartoon, grapefruit is difficult to eat and UNtasty. But it does seem to be good for us. US News.com just ran one of those fun little collections of wonder foods. The five foods in the...

Wonder foods, Part I -- Blue M&M's

Posted on July 29, 2009
US News.com just ran one of those fun little collections of wonder foods. The five foods in the article are Blue M&M's, Grapefruit, Peas, Watermelon and Chocolate.: Can Blue M&M's, Blue Gatorade Protect Your Spine? Surprisingly Helpful Foods -- 5...

Genetically Engineered Potatoes On the Way

Posted on July 29, 2009
From London Reuters: Genetically modified potato crop trial resumes A crop trial of genetically engineered potatoes has resumed in northern Britain, a year after the trial was abandoned when protesters ripped up plants. "We granted a three-year consent," a government...

Conference: Food Safety Security and Sources -- University of Wyoming, Sept. 24-25, 2009

Posted on July 28, 2009
Save the date for the next Consumer Issues Conference: Food Safety, Security and Sources on September 24th and 25th. As usual there will be several keynote presentations by nationally known speakers, breakout sessions by experts on issue topics, poster presentations...

Monday morning lite -- Nutrition Quiz

Posted on July 27, 2009
Here's a fun little nutrition quiz from the Sacramento Bee: Nutrition Quiz Sodium in excess is evil ? or so they say. We're always told to cut down on soy sauce consumption, for example. But a new study in the...

NPR's Joanne Silberner on Contaminated Food

Posted on July 27, 2009
National Public Radio's Morning Edition did a piece on food safety today. Contaminated Food: A More Watchful Eye Needed by Joanne Silberner The president, the new head of the Food and Drug Administration, and some members of Congress have all...

Risque TV Ad for donut holes -- Careful, this is PG13

Posted on July 26, 2009
It made me chuckle. It's not really law, but every now and then something that's slightly off is just, well, funny. Hardee's got some grief about this from one of it's store owners (a company that owns over 300 of...

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