On February 3, 2015, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a notice to inspection program personnel (IPP) to make them aware of the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) final rule on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) published in the Federal Register on May 24, 2013, which requires certain [...]
On January 22, 2015, Erik Lieberman presented a webinar on the final regulation on vending machine labeling requirements published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Federal Register on December 1, 2014. The regulation requires businesses who own or operate 20 or more vending machines to provide calorie declarations for foods sold [...]
On December 1, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final regulation in the Federal Register requiring businesses who own or operate 20 or more vending machines to provide calorie declarations for foods sold from the vending machines. Calorie declarations must be clear and conspicuous and be on the machine itself or [...]
On December 31, 2014, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a final rule requiring the use of descriptive designations as part of the product name on the labels of raw meat and poultry products that contain added solutions and do not meet a standard of identity. [...]
On December 4, 2014, Erik Lieberman of Lieberman PLLC hosted a webinar reviewing the requirements of the final menu labeling regulation published by the Food and Drug Administration on December 1, 2014. The regulation has a very significant impact on restaurants and similar retail establishments including grocery stores and convenience stores. A replay of the [...]
Regulatory Alert: FDA Releases Final Menu Labeling Rule Restaurants, Supermarkets and Convenience Stores Must Comply with Broad New Regulation On November 25, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the final Menu Labeling Rule (“Final Rule”) which requires restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores and other establishments to conspicuously post calorie information and provide additional [...]
On November 20, 2014, Erik Lieberman held a webinar on opportunities for foreign governments under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). FSMA provides for a number of specific roles foreign governments can play in assisting their food exporters to the U.S. in complying with the law. The webinar reviewed the proactive steps governments of foreign countries [...]
On October 20, 2014, a World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Panel (DSP) issued a report which ruled that the revised Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) regulation finalized by USDA in May 2013 (2013 Final Rule) did not make the COOL laws and regulations as applied to beef and pork compliant with the Technical Barriers to [...]
Foreign government employees can play a number of roles under the Food Safety Modernization Act (“FSMA”) to conduct audits or inspections that exporters of food to the U.S. can provide to their U.S. importers to allow the importers to satisfy Foreign Supplier Verification Program (“FSVP”) food safety on-site audit requirements. FDA issued a proposed FSVP [...]
On October 24, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a series of three videos on the labeling of seafood products to educate the seafood industry, retailers and state regulators. If you have any questions please contact Erik Lieberman at erl1@liebermanpllc.com or 202.830.0300. From FDA: FDA Develops Online Learning Module to Help Ensure Proper Labeling of [...]
