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By Ching-Fu Lin [Ed. Note: On Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3, 2014, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted its 2014 annual conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” This is the first installment in our series of live blog posts…
By Ching-Fu Lin The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit recently ruled against the meat industry’s challenge to stop the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) implementation of the amended Country of Origin…
By Ching-Fu Lin China’s highest executive organ, the State Council, put out the Food and Nutrition Development Outline 2014-2020 (the Outline) in February of 2014. The Outline was jointly drafted by China’s Ministry of Agriculture…
By Ching-Fu Lin Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft methodological approach for designating high-risk foods (HRFs) as required by section 204(d)(2) of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). HRFs identified…
[Ed. Note: On Friday, the Petrie-Flom Center, the Food Law and Policy Clinic (a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation), the Food Law Lab, and the Harvard Food Law Society (with support from the Top University Strategic…
By Ching-Fu Lin The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rule on Accreditation of Third Party Auditors to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) has given rise to many questions on both domestic and international…
By Ching-Fu Lin About a month ago, Jensen Farms pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for introducing adulterated food into the nation’s food supply via interstate commerce. In 2011, cantaloupes produced by Jensen Farms resulted in…
By Ching-Fu Lin At the World Trade Organization (WTO) committee dealing with food safety and other issues under the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) held approximately three weeks ago,…
By Ching-Fu Lin [See Part I here.] In response to the melamine-tainted milk scandal in 2008, China replaced its outdated Food Hygiene Act with the Food Safety Law, which came into effect in 2009. The…
By Ching-Fu Lin Why should we be concerned about China’s food safety problem? A recent opinion by Adam Minter on Bloomberg offers yet another tough criticism on China’s food system: “For more than a decade, China…
