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Trade Practices Warning: Colorable Imitation of a Trademark or Trade Dress Must Be Avoided

Federal and State laws protect the efforts that food manufacturers/distributors put into promoting customer recognition of, and trust in, their...

Jack Block: This and That July 2018

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block I’m going to focus on some different issues today. Trade is in the...

John Block: Trump Trumps NATO

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block Before I focus on this week’s subject, I just want to say a...

A Career of Service: Matz Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by Congressional Hunger Center

This evening, the Congressional Hunger Center will present its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award to Marshall Matz. However, if you were...

Back From China

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block Hello everybody out there in farm country. This radio commentary is brought to...

EAFUS Inventory Replaced by “Substances Added to Food” Inventory

CFSAN/FDA’s Office of Food Additive Safety (OFAS) has replaced the original Everything Added to Food in the U. S. (EAFUS)...

Keep Food Programs at the USDA

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block Hello everybody out there in farm country. This is Rick Frank sitting in...

FDA Nutrition Innovation Strategy

FDA has announced a public meeting, entitled “FDA’s Comprehensive, Multi-Year Nutrition Innovation Strategy,” (Strategy) to be held on July 26,...

Intentional Adulteration Mitigation Strategies – Initial Draft Guidance

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act contained provisions aimed at preventing intentional adulteration from acts intended to cause wide-scale harm...

Jack Block: Trade and China

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block I am headed to China this week with 30 farm broadcasters and farm...

Isolated or Synthetic Non-Digestible Carbohydrates that Qualify as Dietary Fiber

FDA has published a guidance that specifies eight (8) additional substances that qualify as dietary fiber for purposes of nutrition...

Jack Block: China

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block Next week, I am going to China. Last November, I was asked by...

John Block: Issues

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block It could be announced any time, but we still don’t know. Will the...

Jack Block: This and That

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block President Trump and Conservative Members of Congress have been trying to cut back...

SNAP Trafficking and Other Civil Monetary Penalties Edge Higher

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) may impose civil monetary penalties (CMP) on retailers that are determined to have violated...

Synthetic Flavors’ Safety Questioned – Strategy Needed to Address Consequence

Food manufacturers using the following seven (7) synthetic flavoring substances and adjuvants should take note that the safety of these...

A Welcome Fresh Perspective at the CPSC

After a nearly nine month delay, the United States Senate earlier this week finally voted to confirm the nomination of...

Jack Block: Trade and the Farm Bill

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block I was on the farm in Illinois last week. I went into the...

FDA Announces Medical Device Quality System Regulation Change

FDA recently announced a potential massive overhaul to its Medical Device regulations. Specifically, the agency intends to “harmonize and modernize”...

Federal Crop Insurance AIPs: Some Misconceptions about Underwriting Gains

Debate over the 2018 Farm Bill, likely to start in earnest this week with House consideration of H.R. 2, may...

Selling Too Much Food Hot? SNAP-Authorized You’re Not!

Small grocery stores and specialty retail food stores that sell hot foods are facing an unprecedented threat to their businesses....

Jack Block: Down on the Farm

By former USDA Secretary John R. Block I was wondering if spring would ever come. We had snow on the...

FDA Finalizes Nutrition Facts Compliance Date Extension by 1.5 Years

On May 4, 2018, the FDA issued its final rule extending the compliance date for the updated nutrition information on...

Menu Labeling – Supplemental Guidance

On the same day that FDA’s menu labeling regulation became effective for compliance by industry, the agency published notice of...