Does the legislation have legs or is it just for optics? Stakeholders agree the bills are a step in a positive direction, but what impact they will have, if any, is yet to be seen.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed the GRAS (generally recognised as safe) status for Nascent Health Sciences’ SoPure Stevia with a No Objection Letter.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently added glucomannan to the existing list of isolated or synthetic non-digestible carbohydrates that it intends to propose to be added to the definition of dietary fibre.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working towards a method to validate the effectiveness and safety of medicated chewing gums such as nicotine gum.
The Snack Food Association and other industry bodies have urged the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to communicate in writing the deadlines for enforcement of new provisions in the Food Safety Modernization Act.
There is no known link between food colouring and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), however wider safety issues remain, says one expert.
Suppliers of the food colouring carmine are taking a cautious approach to new customers, as the industry continues to feel the impact of supply shortages, which this year sent prices for the ingredient soaring six fold.
Major stevia player PureCircle has won a GRAS (generally recognized as safe) letter of no objection from the Food and Drug Administration for a blend it is aiming at products seeking partial sugar and calorie reduction.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) called for a ban on food colorings last week – but food industry experts insist there is overwhelming evidence of their safety.
The US FDA is being sued over its health claims regime – actions that are unlikely to succeed according to most pundits – but they raise serious questions about healthy food messaging and free speech that are being felt globally.
One week on from Nestle’s recall of its Toll House cookie dough, the source of an E. coli strain that has sickened 69 people across 29 states still has FDA officials baffled, but lawsuits have already been filed.
On a summer’s day in 1906 Theodore Roosevelt pushed through new food safety regulation. The Food and Drugs Act passed that day over 100 years ago was the last time the US food safety system was modernized.
Amidst ongoing amendments to improve food safety after recent US contamination scares, Kraft Foods says that system design and prevention remain central to its hygiene plans as opposed to heightened testing.
More stevia sweetened products are lining up for launch but campaigners are calling for the FDA decision that signaled that the sweetener could be used in food and beverages to be reversed.
Danisco has stopped selling the sweetener alitame and has withdrawn
its Food and Drug Administration (FDA) petition for it to be used
in food in America, citing uneconomic production.
PepsiCo and several other soft drink manufacturers have agreed to a
settlement in a lawsuit brought against the companies alleging
their products contained cancer-causing benzene.
The federal food safety inspection unit has approved an additional
batch of additives, antimicrobals and agents for use as processing
aids directly on meat and poultry products.
The US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is debating
whether to create a new set of food standards in order to encourage
more nutritious food formulation, writes Anthony Fletcher.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed to amend the
rules authorizing a health claim on non-cariogenic carbohydrate
sweeteners, to include the non-nutritive sweetener sucralose.
In light of the 18th session of the Codex Committee on Fats and
Oils to be held in London, UK on 3-7 February 2003, the US
Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration said
this week that they are to sponsor a public...
