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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

FDA to study consumer reactions to front-of-package nutrition labels

Posted on July 03, 2009
This came from Food Label News: FDA is proposing to conduct an experimental study to assess quantitative consumer reactions to front-of-package nutrition symbols. The proposed study is described in the June 1, 2009, Federal Register. In part the study design...

Shipping wine across state lines -- but not to New York

Posted on July 03, 2009
This one is from Wine Spectator: Federal Court Tells Out-of-State Wine Stores to Stay Out of New York . . . A three-judge panel on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that New York's law permitting in-state retailers...

Changing definitions of organic

Posted on July 03, 2009
From the Washington Post: Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned Three years ago, U.S. Department of Agriculture employees determined that synthetic additives in organic baby formula violated federal standards and should be banned from a product carrying the federal...

TIME Magazine on posting restaurant calorie info

Posted on July 01, 2009
Interesting piece on Time.com (June 29, 2009) on the restaurant calorie labeling issue: Fast Food: Would You Like 1,000 Calories with That?, by Sean Gregory How sloppy is that triple Whopper with cheese? It has 1,250 calories, or 62.5% of...

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E Coli in cookie dough -- don't eat it!

Posted on June 30, 2009
We shouldn't eat raw cookie dough anyway, but this is scary. FDA news release: FDA CONFIRMS E. COLI O157:H7 IN PREPACKAGED NESTL� TOLL HOUSE REFRIGERATED COOKIE DOUGH Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has found E....

FDA: Pistachio warning

Posted on June 24, 2009
Here's a voluntary recall that didn't happen: FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat California Prime Produce and Orange County Orchards Brands of Pistachios Products linked to the previous recall by Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc. The U.S. Food and...

FDA Seeks Public Input on Transparency

Posted on June 24, 2009
This is today: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will host a daylong meeting on June 24, 2009. During this meeting, the FDA will seek recommendations on how to make information on FDA activities and decision-making useful, understandable, and more...

GE Roundtable on Seed Magazine.com

Posted on June 24, 2009
From SeedMagazine.com: Five experts debate the roots of GM opposition, the role of big agribusiness, and whether we?ve achieved real scientific consensus. . . . But despite Mon810?s official sanction under EU law, several countries?including France, Austria, Greece, Hungary and...

GE Roundtable on Seed Magazine

Posted on June 19, 2009
From SeedMagazine.com: Five experts debate the roots of GM opposition, the role of big agribusiness, and whether we?ve achieved real scientific consensus. . . . But despite Mon810?s official sanction under EU law, several countries?including France, Austria, Greece, Hungary and...

Guilty plea in tainted pet food case

Posted on June 19, 2009
U.S. District Attorney news release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Nevada company and its owners pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing a tainted...

Canada's Organic Trade Association supports Organic Equivalent Agreement

Posted on June 19, 2009
From Canadian Business.com The Organic Trade Association in Canada (OTA) responded in support of the announcement that Canada and the United States have signed an equivalency agreement allowing organic products to be traded between the two countries. (blogged here) "This...

House Energy Committee -- more funding for FDA and food safety

Posted on June 19, 2009
From the Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration significantly more funding and power to police food safety. The bill comes in response to...

U.S., Canada Agreement For Organic Trade Equivalence

Posted on June 19, 2009
USDA News Release: CHICAGO, June 17, 2009 -- Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced that a first-of-its-kind agreement has been reached between the United States and Canada that will expand opportunities for organic producers in both countries...

Food, Inc. -- a film I want to see

Posted on June 17, 2009
Food, Inc. opens this week in my area: Of course, the title keeps reminding me of Monsters, Inc., one of my favorites that has nothing to do with food:

More Atlantic salmon now "endangered"

Posted on June 17, 2009
From a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) news release: NOAA?s Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today extended Endangered Species Act protection to more Atlantic salmon by adding fish in the Penobscot, Kennebec, and Androscoggin rivers...

Tracing food origins -- barcodes?

Posted on June 17, 2009
Here's an interesting article from NewScientist.com on the possibility of using barcodes to trace food origins: Barcodes could reveal your food's credentials, by Mason Inman . . . Most manufacturers already use barcodes or RFID chips to track their products...

FDA Forms Transparency Task Force

Posted on June 02, 2009
FDA News Release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the formation of a task force to develop recommendations for enhancing the transparency of the agency?s operations and decision-making process. To support the efforts of the task force,...

ABA Section of Business Law: Food and The Law

Posted on May 29, 2009
The May/June 2009 issue of Business Law Today (the magazine of the ABA business law section), is all about Food! Here's the Food portion of the table of contents for the online version (slightly different from the print edition): Features...

Marler will pay Michael Pollan's speaking fee

Posted on May 27, 2009
Bill Marler has offered to pay Michael Pollan's speaking fee at Marler's alma mater, Washington State University, and the university has accepted Marler's offer. From the Chronicle of Higher Education: In the recent case of Washington State University?s dropping Michael...

When is breakfast cereal a "drug"? When it's Cheerios

Posted on May 13, 2009
General Mills, maker of Cheerios, received a letter from the FDA yesterday warning that the health claims about fiber and heart disease on Cheerios boxes are unauthorized and make the cereal into a "drug." The claims about fiber show that...

Stanford Law & Policy Review Symposium: Food Policy and Health -- Call for Papers

Posted on April 21, 2009
The Stanford Law & Policy Review seeks articles or short essays for publication in the Stanford Law & Policy Review?s upcoming symposium on ?Food Policy and Health.? The Stanford Law & Policy Review is an academic journal at Stanford Law...

With Salmonella Scare, Shoppers turn to ?Sacred Foods?

Posted on April 08, 2009
An article on Examiner.com, reports that the Salmonella scare associated with pistachios has caused many shoppers to turn toward so-called ?sacred foods.? Sacred Foods include kosher and Halal foods and foods that are gluten-free and dairy-free. According to an article...

More Children taking Diabetes and Blood Pressure Drugs

Posted on April 08, 2009
According to a recent study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, the number of children taking drugs for diabetes and hypertension is increasing. From a Forbes article: ?[R]esearchers at Caremark, a large supplier of medications to people with...

No mandatory recall, but . . .

Posted on April 08, 2009
FDA News Release: FDA Serves Warrant for Inspection of Westco Fruit and Nuts Inc. New Jersey-based company received peanuts implicated in Salmonella outbreak; refused to provide access to records and refused to recall products At the request of the U...

US Food Producers File 1 Billion Dollar Lawsuit

Posted on April 07, 2009
A recent release from the Dow Jones Newswire reports that five domestic producers of food products filed a $1 billion lawsuit seeking class-action status against a handful of major insurance companies and the U.S. government for alleged damages caused by...

Renewed commitment to banning ?Downer' cows from the US food supply

Posted on April 04, 2009
[Thank you to William Mitchell College of Law student, Brooke Mengel, for preparing this post.] ?Downer' cows will be banned from the US food supply. In his March 14, 2009, weekly address, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of...

A Change From Fast to Slow Food:

Posted on April 04, 2009
[Thank you to William Mitchell College of Law student, Blake Sandven, for preparing this post.] I was watching an episode of CBS?s 60 Minutes recently and something food related caught my eye. The segment talked about Alice Waters, the so-called...

What?s In Your Milk Fat?

Posted on April 04, 2009
Sales in the organic milk market are increasing dramatically. That?s because organic milk means the milk came from cows raised humanely with access to pasture, who were never treated with artificial growth hormones and never ate feed treated with fertilizer...

There?s ?nut?ting like a good recall?

Posted on April 04, 2009
We've blogged about the pistachio recall a couple of times now (here and here). This post has a link to the recalled products too. In the ever expanding list of things not to eat because of Salmonella risks, we now...

PLEASE DON?T TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME!!

Posted on April 04, 2009
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2009 ? It?s spring time! That?s right! Time for baseball and recalled frankfurters! The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that Sara Lee North American Retail is recalling approximately 1,728 pounds of cheese frank products...

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