Pivotal food regulatory updates abound in the recently released Spring 2024 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, announced earlier this month by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The...more
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has proposed to amend the organic regulations to strengthen oversight and enforcement of the production, handling, and sale of organic...more
Yesterday the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released its final rule implementing the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) passed by Congress in July 2016. In...more
On May 4, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a proposed rule to establish a national disclosure standard for foods that may contain bioengineered ingredients. AMS now...more
The US Department of Agriculture, through its Agricultural Marketing Service, released its highly anticipated rule proposing a nationwide labeling requirement for foods containing bioengineered ingredients, also known as...more
A new law targeted at GMO food labeling instructs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards for identifying “bioengineered” food. While many might think CRISPR-modified foods will be covered by such a law, certain...more