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We’re Not in Kansas Anymore – Harvard Law School Petitions FSIS on Cell-Based Meat and Poultry Labeling

By Maria Kalousi-Tatum
// July 27, 2020
Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic (Clinic) submitted a petition on June 9 to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), urging it to adopt a labeling approach for the emerging category of cell-based meat and poultry that “does not overly restrict speech and that respects the First Amendment."
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Topics: Food, FSIS, Labeling

FSIS, FDA Announce More Flexibility in Regulatory Requirements During Pandemic

By Alexandre Gapihan
// May 07, 2020
As the public health emergency caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) continuously evolves, the US Department of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are actively releasing new, and updating existing, policy statements and temporary guidance providing flexibility on certain regulatory requirements during the pendency of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Topics: FDA, FSIS, GR, USDA

FSIS, FDA Provide Flexibility with Temporary Guidance

By Alexandre Gapihan
// April 17, 2020
The US Department of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have released policy statements and temporary guidance providing flexibility on certain regulatory requirements during the pendency of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Topics: FDA, FSIS, GR, USDA

FSIS Stresses Continuity and Cooperation

April 03, 2020
The designation of the food industry as critical infrastructure in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to necessary and sensible efforts to realign the federal regulatory landscape to facilitate this essential activity, without compromising the public interest.
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Topics: FDA, FSIS

Petition Asks FSIS to Declare 31 Salmonella Strains as Adulterants

By Maria Kalousi-Tatum
// January 23, 2020
Marler Clark LLP filed a petition on behalf of several individuals and consumer groups on January 19, asking USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to issue an interpretive rule declaring 31 salmonella strains as per se adulterants in meat and poultry products.
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Topics: Food, FSIS, USDA

Disclosure of WGS Data: What Might Inform and What Might Mislead

By Maria Kalousi-Tatum
// January 16, 2020
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) has become the technology of choice for FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to help protect consumers from foodborne illness.
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Topics: FDA, Food, FSIS, Regulatory, USDA, WGS

Lawyering Could Become Next Part of Whole Genome Sequence

November 03, 2017
As referenced earlier in this space, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) hosted a public meeting on Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) issues late in October (see meeting agenda). It provided a range of helpful information on the implications of the rapid and ongoing adoption of such technology by FSIS and other actors in the public health community at both federal and state levels.
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Topics: FDA, FSIS, Litigation, Regulatory, USDA, WGS

Sequencing Is Coming—FSIS Meeting Will Discuss Intentions Regarding WGS

September 25, 2017
On September 22, 2017, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced its intention to host a public meeting in October to discuss overall federal food safety agency practices as well as plans for collecting and analyzing whole genome sequence (WGS) data of bacteria isolated from official samples, including the state of the science and other issues surrounding use of this technology.
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Topics: FDA, FSIS, Litigation, Regulatory, USDA, WGS

FSIS Proposed Nutrition Labeling Rule Placed on Inactive List, Putting National Uniformity at Risk

August 01, 2017
Last week FSIS’s Revised Nutrition Facts Panel proposed rule was placed on the list of “inactive” regulations, indicating that the rule is no longer a priority and will be reconsidered at an unspecified time in the future
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Topics: FDA, FSIS, Labeling, Regulatory, Retail, USDA

USDA Proposed Revisions to Nutritional Fact Panel for Meat and Poultry Products

December 09, 2016
On December 1, the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a proposed rule to amend the nutrition labeling regulations for meat and poultry products (Proposed Rule). The revisions in the Proposed Rule are meant to parallel, to the extent possible, the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) two similar final rules concerning nutrition fact labels (Nutrition Labeling Rules).
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Topics: FDA, FSIS, Labeling, Regulatory, Retail, USDA
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