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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
In this opinion piece, Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, makes a case for swift FDA implementation of front-of-pack nutrition labeling and its potential to reduce healthcare costs while increasing healthier choices and products from consumers and manufacturers.
U.S. food systems will need to adapt to better protect against the consequences of climate change on food safety and public health, experts said at a recent food policy conference.
The nation’s largest pet food industry group and state regulators are at odds over a measure intended to federalize pet food labeling regulations, while simultaneously upending an array of current state-by-state laws laying out processes for determining what ingredients should be listed and whether marketing claims can be backed up.
To kick off this year’s National Food Policy Conference by the Consumer Federation of America, Jim Jones, deputy commissioner of the FDA's human foods program, updated industry stakeholders and observers on efforts to revamp the agency’s food and nutrition efforts.
A Texas resident who was directly exposed to dairy cattle that were “presumed to be infected with avian influenza” is being treated for bird flu, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Monday.
In this opinion piece, Austin Therrell, executive director of AAFCO, unveils his perspective on the PURR Act, contrasting with a recently published article about pet food makers' desire to have a modern, 21st-century regulatory system.
In this opinion piece, Frank Yianna, former Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy & Response at the FDA, weighs in on the importance of passing the Food Date Labeling Act to reduce food waste and reduce consumer confusion over food date labels.
Lawmakers have until Friday to pass the first of their fiscal 2024 spending bills, including the measure needed to fund USDA, or they’ll have to pass another stopgap spending measure to avert a partial shutdown of the government. The Biden administration also is scheduled to announce a critical update of the GREET model that’s used to measure the carbon intensity of biofuels.
USDA’s Equity Commission is out with a detailed set of recommendations for reforming a wide range of programs, including the way commodity and conservation programs operate.
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