Rule 25 Feb 2025 compliance, health claims, nutrition, food labeling, fda regulations

🥗FDA Delays Effective Date of "Healthy" Food Labeling Regulation

In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2025, from the President, entitled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review," the effective date of the final rule entitled "Food Labeling: Nutrient Content Claims; Definition of Term `Healthy,' " is delayed until April 28, 2025.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 21 Jan 2025 compliance, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business operations, fda regulations, labeling, veterinary medicine, animal feeds, animal drugs

🐾New Animal Drug Regulations Affecting Compliance and Approval Processes

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect application-related actions for new animal drug applications (NADAs) and abbreviated new animal drug applications (ANADAs) during October, November, and December 2024. The animal drug regulations are also being amended to improve their accuracy and readability.

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Compliance, Industry Regulation 17 Jan 2025 compliance, fda regulations, medical devices, food additives, cosmetics, color additives, drugs, meat alternatives, foods, myoglobin

🥩FDA Regulation on Myoglobin as Color Additive for Meat Alternatives

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of myoglobin as a color additive in ground meat and ground poultry analogue products. We are taking this action in response to a color additive petition (CAP) submitted by Motif FoodWorks, Inc. (Motif FoodWorks or petitioner).

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Regulatory Compliance, Economic Impact 16 Jan 2025 business impact, compliance requirements, fda regulations, nutrition, food labeling, nutrition facts, reporting and recordkeeping requirements

📊New FDA Food Labeling Rules

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) proposes to require front-of-package nutrition labels on most foods that must bear a Nutrition Facts label. This action, if finalized, would require the display of a compact informational box containing certain nutrient information on the principal display panel. The box would provide consumers, including those who have lower nutrition knowledge, with standardized, interpretive nutrition information that can help them quickly and easily identify how foods can be part of a healthy diet. We also propose to amend certain nutrient content claim regulations to align with current nutrition science and avoid within-label inconsistencies.

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Compliance Requirements, Consumer Trends 15 Jan 2025 fda regulations, manufacturing processes, high-protein yogurt, dairy industry, consumer expectations

🥛FDA Seeks Information on High-Protein Yogurt Standards by 2025

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is requesting information and data about the manufacturing processes and ingredients used to make certain dairy products referred to as high-protein yogurt, Greek yogurt, or Greek-style yogurt in this document. We are taking this action, in part, because the yogurt standard of identity may not align with certain manufacturing processes and ingredients used to concentrate protein to manufacture these products. We intend to use the information and data to help determine what type(s) of actions, if any, should be taken.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 7 Jan 2025 food safety, fda regulations, pathogen control, low-moisture foods, sanitation

🍽️FDA Guidance on Sanitation for Low-Moisture Ready-To-Eat Foods

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Establishing Sanitation Programs for Low-Moisture Ready-to-Eat Human Foods and Taking Corrective Actions Following a Pathogen Contamination Event." The draft guidance, when finalized, will explain FDA's current thinking on establishing a routine sanitation program for low-moisture ready-to-eat human foods (LMRTE foods) that can help prevent contamination of food or a food-contact surface with a pathogen and will explain our current thinking for corrective actions, including corrective actions to remediate contamination of food-contact surfaces, if prevention fails.

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Regulatory Compliance, Market Impact 2 Jan 2025 fda regulations, food safety, market testing, compliance, liquid eggs

🥚FDA Revokes Liquid Eggs Temporary Permit

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing the revocation of the temporary permit issued to M.G. Waldbaum Co., a subsidiary of Michael Foods Egg Co., to market test "ultrapasteurized liquid whole eggs" and "ultrapasteurized liquid whole eggs with citric acid" because the need for the temporary permit no longer exists.

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