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Food Law Prof Blog

Written by Donna M. Byrne, Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law

Post Frequency: 2/day

Last Entry: September 18, 2010 at 14:54:02

E coli O157:H7 from produce yet again?

Posted on September 23, 2009
From Food Safety News: It appears that fresh produce may once again be responsible for a new outbreak of the dreaded E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in Utah, Colorado, and New York, Food Safety News has learned. . . . ....

FDA Science Writers Symposium, November 4-5

Posted on September 20, 2009
From the FDA website: Writing About the Future of Public Health Science is a key foundation for the decisions FDA makes day on a wide-range of products affecting human and animal health?from the most common food ingredients, to complex medical...

NYT: Agricultural Runoff and Drinking Water

Posted on September 19, 2009
From the New York Times online, Sept. 18, 2009: Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells By CHARLES DUHIGG . . .There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County [WI], which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260...

Shanah Tovah

Posted on September 19, 2009
Today is the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Food Law Prof Blog wishes all of its readers a Sweet and Rewarding Year. Shanah Tovah

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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Milk Competition Saturday, Sept. 19

Posted on September 18, 2009
From the Wall Street Journal: Farmers Want Industry Probe Dairy farmers, stung by a price-depressing glut of milk, are pressing federal antitrust regulators to investigate competition in the industry. A group of dairy farmers is slated to meet with antitrust...

Friday Lite: CNN on Why We Eat Too Much

Posted on September 18, 2009
From CNN.com: We all know we're supposed to eat healthy portions. So why is it that a rough day at the office or even just the smell of chocolate-chip cookies can cause us to throw our best intentions out the...

Soda Tax in the News

Posted on September 17, 2009
Proposed taxes on sugar sodas seem to be getting a lot of ink lately. President Obama thinks it's worth considering (blogged here). A recent study by a star-studded cast of nutrition and obesity experts published in the New England Journal...

Wisconsin Campylobacter Outbreak Linked to Raw Milk

Posted on September 17, 2009
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture press release: Pronunciation note: CAM puh lo bak ter juh JOO nee MADISON -- DNA test results and other evidence have now established that an outbreak of illness involving at least 35 people, the majority children....

China Probes ?Unfair Trade? in U.S. Chicken and Auto Products

Posted on September 16, 2009
From Bloomberg.com: Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- China announced dumping and subsidy probes of chicken and auto products from the U.S., two days after President Barack Obama imposed tariffs on tires from the Asian nation. Chinese industries complain . . ....

Advisory Panel to Consider Nano-materials in Pesticide Products

Posted on September 16, 2009
Thank you to Cindy Finley, who contributed this as a comment to our earlier post on nano particles in pesticides (blogged here). There will be a 4-day consultation meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel...

House and Senate Food Safety Bills

Posted on September 15, 2009
Bill Marler has prepared a useful comparison of HR 2749, The Food Safety Enhancement Act, passed by the House, and S. 510, The Food Safety Modernization Act, under consideration in the Senate. The comparison appears on Food Safety News: Food...

New website: Food Safety News

Posted on September 15, 2009
Kudos to Marler Clark for launching a promising and informative new website. Food Safety News is a news site rather than a blog (Bill Marler's MarlerBlog is still going strong too). The site has reporters who are not lawyers, as...

USDA ERS Report: U.S. Food Import Patterns, 1995-2007

Posted on September 12, 2009
The USDA Economic Research Service recently (August 2009) published a report on food imports: Abstract Using import data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this study examines patterns of U.S. food imports for fiscal years 1998-2007. Results indicate faster import growth...

FDA: Updated Guidance on the Reportable Food Registry

Posted on September 10, 2009
The Reportable Food Registry Electronic Portal went into effect September 8, but FDA has revised its Guidance to announce "enforcement discretion:" You must comply with the requirements of the Reportable Food Registry (Section 417 of the FD&C Act) on September...

HHS and USDA Launch New Food Safety Consumer Website

Posted on September 10, 2009
Health and Human Services News Release: HHS and USDA Unveil New Food Safety Consumer Web Site at www.foodsafety.gov New site features the latest food safety and recall information from across the government Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...

Criticism and Concern over "Smart Choices" Green Checkmarks

Posted on September 09, 2009
From the New York Times: For Your Health, Froot Loops . . . The green checkmark label that is starting to show up on store shelves will appear on hundreds of packages, including ? to the surprise of many nutritionists...

Obama Says Soft Drink Tax Worth Considering

Posted on September 09, 2009
From the New York Daily News: . . . The President, in an interview with Men's Health Magazine released yesterday, said he thought taxing soda and other sugary drinks is worth putting on the table as Congress debates health care...

American Heart Association: Eat Less Sugar

Posted on September 09, 2009
The American Heart Association is now recommending we eat less sugar. This is probably good news, since there's a possible sugar shortage ahead (blogged here). From the AHA website: Association recommends reduced intake of added sugars Study highlights: High intake...

National Food Policy Conference in DC Tues and Wed, Sept 8-9

Posted on September 08, 2009
This is today and tomorrow and I wish I could be there. Here's the blurb from the home page of the National Food Policy Conference, sponsored by the Consumer Federation of America in cooperation with the Grocery Manufacturers Association: For...

FDA Opens the Reportable Food Registry Electronic Portal for Industry

Posted on September 08, 2009
Food facilities now required to report potentially dangerous products FDA News Release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a new way to head off potential cases of foodborne illness ? the Reportable Food Registry (RFR), where food industry officials...

Can they do this? Beer from Civet (weasel-like animal) droppings

Posted on September 04, 2009
Bevlog beer and wine label blog comes up with the oddest things. But this one really has me wondering. Here's the blurb: Beer with Civet Droppings Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch. . . is made with weasel excrement. Literally. The label...

Beer that travels

Posted on September 04, 2009
Seems like there's a lot of news about beer lately. Perhaps it's Oktoberfest in the air. Thank you to Steven H. Sholk for forwarding this piece from the Wall Street Journal. In Belgium, working with a 1.7 million dollar government...

Animal Cruelty -- Video Shows Male Chicks Ground Up

Posted on September 03, 2009
From the Associated Press: Video shows chicks ground up alive at Iowa egg hatchery An animal rights group is calling on the nation's largest grocery story chains to post warnings on egg cartons that unwanted male chicks are ground up...

Reposted -- Call for Papers: University College -- Dublin Workshop on Food Law December 4-5, 2009

Posted on September 02, 2009
This looks intriguing! . . . call for papers for an upcoming workshop on food law, organised by the postgraduate research community at the UCD School of Law. The workshop aims to bring together postgraduate researchers in the field of...

Bill Marler: Legal Issues for Food Safety in Food Safety and Quality Magazine

Posted on September 02, 2009
Bill Marler (Marlerblog.com) has posted an article from Food Safety and Quality Magazine on MarlerBlog. Each year, millions in North America are sickened from food-borne pathogens such as E. coli O157:H7, salmonella and listeria. Where a lengthy and costly investigation...

ABA Journal: Hungry for Change

Posted on September 02, 2009
The September 2009 issue of the American Bar Association Journal is highlighting food safety: Hungry for Change The feds consider a steady diet of stronger regulation to help fix the U.S. food safety network by Kristin Choo You could fill...

ABA Teleconference Wed, Sept 16: Don't Eat That! Legal Issues in Food Safety

Posted on September 02, 2009
Begins: Sep 16, 2009 01:00 PM Ends: Sep 16, 2009 02:00 PM (All times are local per meeting location)Registration information here

WSJ: Recession hits down on the farm

Posted on August 31, 2009
From the Wall Street Journal: Recession Hits Down on the Farm By SCOTT KILMAN and LAUREN ETTER The American farm, which has weathered the global recession better than most U.S. industries, is starting to succumb to the downturn. The Agriculture...

Study: A Small Molecule That Blocks Fat Synthesis

Posted on August 31, 2009
A study published in Chemistry and Biology found that a synthetic molecule dubbed "Fatostatin" can block cholesterol and fatty acid biosynthesis in mice with obesity genes. Here's the abstract (it's rather sciency, but that's better than our attempts at translating...

Testing and Certification for "non-GMO" foods

Posted on August 30, 2009
From the New York Times: Alarmed that genetically engineered crops may be finding their way into organic and natural foods, an industry group has begun a campaign to test products and label those that are largely free of biotech ingredients....

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