News & Insights

Court Orders FDA to Set a Timeline for Issuing Regulations Implementing FSMA

April 24, 2013

Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order requiring FDA to propose new deadlines...

FDA

DMAA Dietary Ingredient Withdrawn from Market

April 18, 2013

FDA’s publication last week, on April 11th, of a warning to consumers about dietary supplements containing dimethylamylamine (DMAA) (a/k/a 1,3-dimethylamylamine,...

USDA

New Obama Budget Includes Cuts for Federal Crop Insurance

April 10, 2013

Few Washington government programs escape un-cut in the new 2014 budget unveiled today by President Obama’s administration, and Federal crop...

EPA

Animal Activist Groups Saddled With Attorney’s Fees for “Groundless” Lawsuit

April 10, 2013

In an important ruling that will almost certainly be appealed, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently...

USDA

2012 Federal Crop Insurance Saved 20,900 Local Jobs in Four States

April 3, 2013

If anyone doubted the huge role that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Federal crop insurance program is playing this...

FDA

Mobile Medical Application Guidance From FDA is Coming

March 29, 2013

“[Final guidance] should be out by the end of the fiscal year” said Christy Foreman, Director of the Office of...

Health Care

FTC Offers Updates Guidance on Social Media; Still Waiting on FDA

March 22, 2013

At the end of 2012, 850 million users worldwide were on Facebook, more than one million websites have integrated...

Public Policy

Congress Clears Final Agriculture/FDA Spending Measure for FY 2013

March 22, 2013

The House of Representatives and Senate have now given final approval to the FY 2013 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and...

USDA

New AMS Proposed Rule for COOL Drives Meat Industry Mad

March 21, 2013

While most people are filling out their brackets for March Madness®, producers of muscle cuts of meat are dealing with...

Public Policy

The Economic Report of the President on Agriculture

March 18, 2013

The 2013 Economic Report of the President, an annual report written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers,...

Health Care

What Kind of Control Over What We Eat and Drink Is Permissible in Our Democracy?

March 15, 2013

Earlier this week, the New York State Supreme Court, New York County, in an opinion of the Honorable Milton A....

Public Policy

Ag Portion of FY 2013 CR: Explanatory Statement

March 12, 2013

Click here for the explanatory statement accompanying the agriculture portion of the Senate’s Continuing Resolution (CR), which was released Monday...

FDA

FDA Cancels Registrations of Food Facilities That Were Not Renewed in Time

March 7, 2013

Some foreign food makers have recently found themselves unceremoniously purged from FDA’s database of registered facilities, and their products stopped...

USDA

School Nutrition Update

March 4, 2013

By Marshall L. Matz, as published in Agri-Pulse School nutrition is front and center these days. At the USDA Outlook...

OFW Law News

USDA Ag Outlook Forum Tomorrow

February 20, 2013

Don’t miss our very own Ken Ackerman at the 2013 USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum tomorrow, February 21, moderating the panel...

Miscellaneous

“Alcohol Facts” Becomes a Reality: FTC Requires Four Loko To Label Its Product

February 13, 2013

Nutrition Facts, Supplement Facts, Drug Facts…… Alcohol Facts? For a number of years, alcoholic beverages have been the only category...

FDA

FY 2012 Clinical Investigation Objectionable Activities/Enforcement Trends

February 13, 2013

Forewarned is forearmed. For FDA-regulated clinical investigations, knowledge of the most common violations cited by the agency upon inspection is...

USDA

Competitive Foods Rule

February 11, 2013

On February 8, 2013, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a...

Public Policy

Federal Budget Process Outline and Outlook

February 5, 2013

Congress did not complete three significant budget matters in 2012: an alternative to sequestration, full federal fiscal year appropriations legislation,...