Articles Tagged with ''FDA''

Speaking on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers, Maine Democrat Chellie Pingree says it is “no time to be cutting back” on the nutrition title within the farm bill.

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf has proposed creating a new Human Foods Program at the agency and has begun a national search for a newly created deputy commissioner for human foods who would report directly to him.

The Food and Drug Administration is calling for a new “regulatory pathway” to allow for the use of use of cannabidiol, or CBD, in dietary supplements and food additives, after concluding that “it is not apparent how CBD products could meet safety standards” for those products.

Frank Yiannas, deputy commissioner for food policy and response at the Food and Drug Administration, announced Wednesday he is stepping down from the agency at the end of February. In his resignation letter, he also called for an empowered deputy commissioner for foods to help better manage food safety oversight at FDA.