[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 from the event; video will be available later in the summer on our website.] Today’s sessions opened with a keynote address from Cass…
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 Labeling (COOL) rules. The current COOL regulations (amended in May 2013) require retailers to identify several types of information on…
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 (MOA) and National Health and Family Planning Commission. The Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of…
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 by the FDA are subject to additional record-keeping requirements, and more frequent foreign inspections and mandatory third-party certification requirements. The…
[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 Alliance and the Dean’s Office at Harvard Law School) co-sponsored a conference at HLS called “New Directions for Food Safety: The Food…
This one-day conference will bring together experts in food law and regulation to discuss a range of issues including food safety, agriculture, risk regulation strategy, and international issues. Speakers are: Keynote: Peter Barton Hutt, Harvard Law School/Covington & Burling Alli Condra, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School Marsha Echols, Howard University School of Law Jacob E. Gersen,…
This one-day conference will bring together experts in food law and regulation to discuss a range of issues including food safety, agriculture, risk regulation strategy, and international issues. Speakers are: Keynote: Peter Barton Hutt, Harvard Law School/Covington & Burling Alli Condra, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School Marsha Echols, Howard University School of Law…
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 levels. The proposed rule is intended to establish a program for recognition of accreditation bodies and accreditation of third-party auditors…
This conference will bring together scholars to discuss a range of issues related to the Food Safety and Modernization Act, including FSMA and risk regulation strategy; regulating farm production; benefits, challenges, and gaps in FSMA’s approach; and international issues and trade implications. Speakers include: KEYNOTE: Peter Barton Hutt, Harvard Law School/Covington & Burling – The Food Safety…
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 a listeria outbreak that spread across 28 states, killed 33 people, and sickened hundreds. The now bankrupt and out of…
