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By Diana R. H. Winters [Crossposted from the Health Affairs Blog] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently taken three steps toward providing consumers with more and better information about food products that the agency…
By Diana R. H. Winters [cross-posted at Health Affairs Blog]On June 16, 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its final determination withdrawing the generally recognized as safe (GRAS) designation for partially hydrogenated oils…
By Diana R. H. Winters [Cross-posted from the Health Affairs Blog] The fragmented nature of regulatory authority over food in the United States is well known. More than a dozen federal agencies are responsible for the safety…
By Diana R. H. Winters[Cross-posted at HealthLawProf Blog.] On Thursday, October 2, 2014, FDA released its “Summary Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed in Food-Producing Animals” for 2012. The Report contains the depressing news that…
By Diana R. H. Winters [Cross-posted at HealthLawProf blog.] Yesterday was a big day in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The White House released an Executive Order and a National Strategy document on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant…
By Diana R. H. Winters [Cross-posted on HealthLawProfBlog.] There was an article a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times about “engineered foods,” and how “a handful of high-tech start-ups are out to revolutionize…
By Diana Winters (@diana3000) [Cross-posted at HealthLawProf Blog.] An important new study shows that a child will most likely be healthier throughout her childhood if a tax on cigarettes is in place when her mother…
By Diana R. H. Winters Legal commentators have spent a lot of time this week sparring over statutory interpretation and the contrasting readings of the ACA by the Halbig and King courts. The potential consequences…
By Diana R.H. Winters While today’s unanimous (sans Justice Breyer, who recused himself) decision by the Supreme Court in POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co. was certainly not a surprise, especially after the clear tenor…
