January 8, 2015
It’s a busy week for food law in the courts. A federal judge heard arguments in the lawsuit challenging Vermont’s GMO labeling law. And a judge in California overturned that state’s ban on foie gras.- National Law Review has a summary of the FDA’s four Proposed Supplemental Rules that revise the agency’s prior proposed rules that implement the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA). The supplemental rules were proposed in September, but an article like this is always timely.
- Baylen Linnekin’s latest Reason article on the 2014 year-end review of important food law and policy issues.
- Food Safety News FDA Warning Letter Roundup, with a couple of fish businesses leading the pack.
- The New York Times had an article last week about loopholes in the regulation of GMOs.
- The Atlantic’s article on the decriminalization of marijuana and the resulting conflicts between federal and state law.
- A majority of American’s want more restaurant menu labeling.
- Craft brewers are running out of trademark-able names for their beers.
- Texas company recalls 35,000 pounds of Australian lamb because it was not presented to USDA FSIS for inspection at the port of entry.
- Food producer voluntarily recalls chili mix because the label did not disclose an allergenic ingredient. The allergen was inadvertently included in the product because an ingredient supplier did not disclose the use of a peanut protein in its spice mix. It’s indemnification time.
- Via the New York Times, ambitious start-ups are filling gaps in the local food economy for functions like logistics, web brokers, and food hubs.
- Oregon is beginning to draft its hemp farming regulations.
- A lengthy one for the weekend, a story of a San Joaquin Valley farm that is running out of water, via the California Sunday Magazine.
- A re-reading of Food Law & Policy: The Fertile Field’s Origins and First Decade because it’s awesome.
