Food Regulation

  • Read more: The Cry Over Fake Milk

    The Cry Over Fake Milk

    A debate has been brewing between the cattle milk industry and the plant-based milk industry (producing drinks made from ingredients such as almonds, soy, and rice), regarding what products can actually be labeled “milk.” This has motivated the Federal Drug Administration to review how milk is defined under federal regulations, in order to protect public health…

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  • Read more: The FDA’s Determination On Artificial Trans Fat: A Long Time Coming

    The FDA’s Determination On Artificial Trans Fat: A Long Time Coming

    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 (PHOs), which are the main source of artificial trans fat in processed foods. The agency gave the food industry…

  • Read more: Tomorrow (1/29): A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis

    Tomorrow (1/29): A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis

    A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis Thursday, January 29, 2015, 12: 00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B                               Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] This event is free and open to the…

  • Read more: Upcoming Event (1/29): A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis

    Upcoming Event (1/29): A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis

    A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis Thursday, January 29, 2015, 12: 00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B                               Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] This event is free and open to the…

  • Read more: Questioning Quorn

    Questioning Quorn

    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 the food system by engineering ‘meat’ and ‘eggs’ from pulverized plant compounds or cultured snippets of animal tissue.”   The author…