News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Food"
Blockchainizing Food Law: Promises and Perils of Incorporating Distributed Ledger Technologies to Food Safety, Traceability, and Sustainability Governance
Blockchain refers to distributed ledger technologies that can store, maintain, and update data collaboratively along a network of computing nodes. With the help of cryptography, peer-to-peer networks, and consensus mechanisms,…
Video now available! Soda Taxes and Other Policy Responses to the American Obesity Epidemic: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the speakers' slide presentations! Description In recent years, some cities have tried to impose soda taxes and other new policies to…
Nearly 700,000 SNAP Recipients Could Lose Benefits Under New Trump Rule
[...] Provisions of the new rule are slated to take effect on April 1, 2020. But opposition to the change is strong, and legal challenges are possible. States say it will impose a…
Call for Abstracts: 2020 bioIP Faculty Workshop, ASLME, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Full call for abstracts: The American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) is pleased to announce the 5th annual bioIP Faculty Workshop on Friday May 1, 2020, at Loyola University of…
Could food safety be improved if FDA had more independence?
From the article: Here’s a quick thought experiment: What if the FDA operated more like the CIA? That’s not a suggestion that the agency engage in…
Can Ethical Labeling Make Food Systems Healthy, Sustainable, and Just?: Lessons from a Critical Evaluation of the Democratic Governance Capacity of Animal Welfare Labeling
Description In this talk, Professor Christine Parker critically investigated the role of food labeling and its contestation as a governance pathway towards healthy, sustainable, and fair food systems. Consumers are…
Antibiotic Resistance: What Collaboration and Policy Can Do For Our Future
Description U.S. PIRG and Harvard Law School invite you to a panel discussion about antibiotic resistance as part of Antibiotic Awareness Week. The World Health Organization ranks antibiotic resistance…
Fourth Annual Harvard-UCLA Food Law and Policy Conference: Food Innovation and the Law: Navigating the Next Frontier
The Food Law Lab at Harvard Law School and the Resnick Program for Food Law & Policy at UCLA School of Law hosted the 4th Annual Harvard-UCLA Food Law and…
2017 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Transparency in Health and Health Care: Legal and Ethical Possibilities and Limits
Couldn't attend in person? You can still check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #transparencyinhealth! And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Description Transparency is a…
2017 Just Food? Conference
Videos from the event are available on the conference website here! This year’s Just Food? Conference will focus on labor in the food system, exploring the issues most…
An FDA Commissioner for the 21st Century
President Donald Trump has named Scott Gottlieb as his nominee to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As compared with some of the other people…
The GMO Labeling Fight Is Not Industry Versus Consumers
From the article: In late July, President Obama signed a bill requiring some form of labeling of foods containing genetically engineered materials. The measure preempts state laws, like Vermont&rsquo…
The Single Bad Reason We Waste Billions of Pounds of Food
From Food Law Lab Director and Petrie-Flom Faculty Affiliate Jacob Gersen: Why exactly are we paying millions of dollars to throw away food? One answer—maybe the answer&mdash…
Book Talk and Panel Discussion: FDA in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies
Join co-editors Holly Fernandez Lynch (Petrie-Flom Executive Director) and I. Glenn Cohen (Petrie-Flom Faculty Director) and contributor Lewis Grossman (American University) for a discussion of FDA in the 21st Century:…
A Conversation with Margaret A. Hamburg, FDA Commissioner 2009-2015
Description The Petrie-Flom Center hosted a conversation with former FDA Commissioner (and former New York City Health Commissioner), Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, led by Peter Barton Hutt, former Chief Counsel…
“FDA in the 21st Century: A Panel Discussion”: Plenary Session at MAGI Clinical Research Conference Features Petrie-Flom Directors on Volume Based on 2013 Annual Conference
On Monday, May 2, 2016, from 8:30 to 10:00am, Petrie-Flom Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch and Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen will participate in a plenary session at the 2016 MAGI Clinical Research Conference…
Book Launch: FDA in the 21st Century
In September 2015, Columbia University Press published FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch and Faculty…
Second Annual HLS-UCLA Food Law and Policy Conference: Drugs, Animals, and Food: Law & Policy of Antibiotics in the Food System
Description The debate over antibiotic use in animal agriculture combines elements of science, ethics, politics, and law. Between fifty and eighty percent of all antibiotics sold in the United States…
Salad Days: Professor Jacob Gersen on the rise of food law
From the article: [...] Much of Harvard Law School now seems hungry to talk about it, too. In addition to teaching the subject, [Jacob] Gersen founded and oversees the Food Law…
FDA in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies
Just out from Columbia University Press, FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies! This volume, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch…
Documentary Screening: Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
This screening of the award-winning documentary Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story was followed by discussion on reducing waste. Panelists: Jen Rustemeyer, Producer Grant Baldwin, Producer Moderator: Emily Broad…
Just Food?: Forum on Justice in the Food System
A conference exploring the intersections between social, economic, and environmental justice in the food system. Just Food? explored the legal, policy, health, and environmental aspects of modern domestic and international…
Harvard Food+ Research Symposium
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs was pleased to announce the first Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society (or as we call it,…
A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis
Video of the lecture and following discussion is available online. What makes food "natural"? Do consumers understand "natural" claims on food labels? In the absence of robust federal guidelines, are…
First Annual HLS-UCLA Food Law and Policy Conference: Transparency in the Global Food System: How Much Information and to What Ends?
The Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law and The Food Law Lab at Harvard Law School partnered to host the UCLA-Harvard Law School Food…
Screening of Fed Up
Documentary Synopsis: Everything we’ve been told about food and exercise for the past 30 years is dead wrong. Fed Up is the film the food industry doesn’t…
Emerging Issues and New Frontiers for FDA Regulation
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Food and Drug Law Institute were pleased to announce this collaborative academic symposium. Agenda: …
UCLA, Harvard Law Schools launch joint annual conference on food law and policy
From the article: UCLA School of Law and Harvard Law School have announced the inauguration of the UCLA-Harvard Food Law and Policy Conference, a joint annual conference that will focus…
New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond
Sponsored by 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…
Harvard Law School to Host Conference on Food Safety Law
The Petrie-Flom Center's upcoming conference "New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond," which will be held at Harvard Law School on Friday, February 21, 2014, was…
Health and Food Law Opportunities at Harvard Law School
1Ls and 2Ls will have the opportunity to learn more about different classes and extracurricular activities available at Harvard Law School that relate to health law. Opportunities range from classes…
The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century: The 2013 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference
Conference Description The Food and Drug Administration, the US government’s oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency, bears the monumental task of safeguarding the public health through regulation of food,…
Forum on Food Labeling: Putting the Label on the Table
The Harvard Law School Food Law Society's second annual conference was a part of the Society's mission to foster dialogue and exchange knowledge of emerging issues in food…