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Food Law Prof Blog

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

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

Future look -- mandatory food irradiation

Posted on September 08, 2008
eFoodAlert.com has a great post by Phyllis Entis about mandatory food irradiation written from the perspective of 25 years from now: Washington, DC. August 28, 2033? The Secretary of State for Food Safety announced today that ? effective January 1,...

GE Alfalfa ruling upheld

Posted on September 03, 2008
Yesterday the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the injunction against planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa issued last year in Geertson Seed Farms. The Federal District Court for the Northern District of California had entered an injunction prohibiting the planting...

20 US Companies Reject Clones

Posted on September 03, 2008
News Release from the Center for Food Safety: Washington, D.C., September 3, 2008 ? The Center for Food Safety and Friends of the Earth today announced that 20 of America?s leading food producers and retailers have stated that they will...

California bill, SB 1420 -- calorie labeling for fast food

Posted on August 21, 2008
A California bill would require calorie labeling for fast food. From the Los Angeles Times: The proposed law, SB 1420, which the state Senate has passed and the Assembly will consider soon, would require chain restaurants with 15 or more...

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Eli Lilly's Elanco buys Posilac (rBGH) from Monsanto

Posted on August 21, 2008
Earlier this week Monsanto announced that it was selling off it's recombinant bovine growth hormone product, Posilac. Here is the news release from Eli Lilly, whose Elanco acquired Posilac for $300 million plus contingent consideration (whatever that is)...

Mercury in Tuna -- Preemption in Fellner v. Tri-Union Seafoods

Posted on August 21, 2008
Interesting discussion on Drug and Device law Blog about a recent food safety case, Fellner v. Tri-Union Seafoods, in which the Third Circuit found that claims stemming from food poisoning from eating canned tuna were not preempted. Drug and Device...

Interview with Paul Roberts, The End of Food

Posted on August 21, 2008
Go to Washington Post.com for an online discussion with Paul Roberts, author of The End of Food. Here's the intro: Paul Roberts: Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining the online discussion for my book, The End of Food. I'll admit, the...

FDA Nanotechnology Public Meeting Sept 8, 2008

Posted on August 15, 2008
From the FDA: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public meeting to gather information that will assist the Agency in implementing the recommendations of the Nanotechnology Task Force Report. For more information on the Nanotechnology Task Force...

FDA/FSIS Food Safety Consumer Survey

Posted on August 14, 2008
The results of a 2006 telephone survey of consumers is available on the CFSAN website: link to survey. Some of the results are interesting. For example, 56% of respondents thought one was more like to get food poisoning from eating...

"Natural" is still an unregulated term

Posted on August 14, 2008
From NaturalNews.com: FDA Refuses to Regulate "Natural" Claim on Food Packaging The article points out that FDA received two petitions in the last year related to the word "natural." Here's my favorite quote: While the FDA has not responded to...

Interactive Food & Beverage Marketing: Targeting Children and Youth in the Digital Age

Posted on August 13, 2008
Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) has recently released a report on digital marketing to children. Here's the blurb: "The Proliferation of the media in children's lives has created a new "marketing ecosystem" that encompasses cell phones, mobile music devices, instant...

Salmonella St Paul found at Mexican pepper farm

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Associated Press: WASHINGTON - The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday. More of this report on Yahoo!

FTC Report Sheds New Light on Food Marketing to Children and Adolescents

Posted on July 30, 2008
FTC News release: "The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a study on food marketing to children and adolescents. The report, Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation [see also Appendices...

FDA Seeks Comments on Newly-Enacted Section 301(ll) of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Which Prohibits the Interstate Shipment of Certain Foods

Posted on July 30, 2008
I'm not sure what I think about this one: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently published a notice in the Federal Register requesting data, information, and comments relevant to the agency's implementation of Section 912 of the Food and...

FDA Advises Against Consumption of American Lobster (Maine Lobster) Tomalley

Posted on July 29, 2008
FDA News Release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned consumers to avoid eating tomalley in American Lobster (Maine Lobster), regardless of where the lobster was harvested, because of potential contamination with dangerous levels of the toxins that cause...

The Economist -- Debate on whether Rising Food Prices can be Good for Humanity

Posted on July 29, 2008
I just received this announcement from The Economist. I don't have a response just now, but the debate looks interesting: Starting today and lasting through August 8, The Economist will be hosting an online, Oxford-style debate on whether or not...

Jalapeno pepper linked to specific salmonella illness

Posted on July 28, 2008
Colorado Department of Health News Release: State Laboratory Confirms First Human Case of Salmonella from Jalapeno DENVER - The Laboratory Services Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has confirmed that a jalapeno pepper provided by an...

FDA: U.S. Grown Jalape�o and Serrano Peppers Not Connected to Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak

Posted on July 25, 2008
FDA Statement: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers that jalape�o and Serrano peppers grown in the United States are not connected with the current Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak. However, the FDA continues to advise consumers to avoid raw...

DHA and grass fed cows

Posted on July 21, 2008
Confession -- I was trying to learn about self-tanning lotions. A review website said the active ingredient is DHA (dihydroxyacetone). So I googled DHA and read the entry on Docosahexaenoic acid on Wikipedia. (Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture,...

Swiss Consumers' Perceptions of Nanotechnology in Food

Posted on July 21, 2008
Here's the headline on Science Daily.com: Nanotechnology In Food And Packaging Accepted By Consumers. Most people I know have never even heard of nanotechnology and certainly have no idea it has anything to do with food, so I found the...

GRAS applications and No Questions letters

Posted on July 21, 2008
FDA Law Blog (published by Hyman, Phelps, and McNamara) has an interesting post on GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) applications for food ingredients and uses for food ingredients: FDA GRAS Response Letter Offers No Safe Harbor from FDAAA � 912...

Food Czar Bill Marler on E. coli and Food Safety

Posted on July 19, 2008
Posted on Marlerblog.com: E. coli O157:H7 is a powerful and deadly bacterium You cannot see it, taste it, or smell it. 250,000 E. coli O157:H7 (E. coli) bacteria will fit on the head of a pin. Ten to 50 will...

School Nutrition Association meeting in Philly July 20-23

Posted on July 15, 2008
The School Nutrition Association annual meeting starts this weekend in Philadelphia. Here's the conference website: http://docs.schoolnutrition.org/meetingsandevents/anc2008/ Wish I could go!

Britain Urging Return to Wartime Food Frugality

Posted on July 13, 2008
Associate Press article by David Stringer: Evoking an era of World War II austerity, British families are being urged to cut food waste and use leftovers in a nationwide effort to fight sharply rising global food prices. It's not back...

USDA Will List Retail Stores Receiving Recalled Meat and Poultry Products

Posted on July 13, 2008
USDA Press Release: July 11, 2008: USDA Will List Retail Stores Receiving Recalled Meat and Poultry Products WASHINGTON, July 11, 2008 - Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer today announced that beginning next month, USDA will begin listing retail stores receiving...

Intellectual Property in the Food Technology Industry (new book)

Posted on July 12, 2008
Just published: Intellectual Property in the Food Technology Industry, Protecting Your Innovation, by O?Donnell, R.W., O?Malley, J.J., Huis, R.J., Halt, Jr., G.B. Considering the effort and funding devoted to a company's success, understanding Intellectual Property rights patents, trade secrets, trademarks,...

Salmonella outbreak

Posted on July 12, 2008
The salmonella St Paul outbreak has now sickened well over 1000 people and the source is still unknown. See MarlerBlog for more information: OK, So it seems like it is Jalapenos and salmonella, or is Serrano Peppers or Cilantro? (July...

Rising Food Costs and School Lunches

Posted on July 12, 2008
From Time.com: Food Prices Eat Up School Lunch, by Kathleen Kingsbury Students at about three-quarters of American schools can expect to find higher prices in their cafeterias when they return this fall, according to a recent survey by the School...

E. coli Ground Beef Recall -- Cook the Meat!!

Posted on July 03, 2008
Get your meat thermometer ready. This one is scary because there is apparently no way for consumers to know whether their ground beef came from the affected source. To protect yourself, you must make sure the inside of the meat...

Raw Milk and Gray Dye

Posted on July 03, 2008
In North Carolina, raw milk can only legally be sold for animal consumption. So a black market has developed to meet some of the demand for raw milk for humans. Here's the fun: last September, the N.C. Board of Agriculture...

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