🥗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.
Learn More🍏Executive Order 14212
Executive Order 14212 creates the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission, tasked with addressing the rising chronic disease rates in America. This initiative aims to promote health through better nutrition, physical activity, and transparency in health research, specifically focusing on childhood health issues and improving public understanding of these challenges.
Learn More📊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.
Learn More🍷HHS and USDA Request Comments on Alcoholic Beverages and Health
HHS and USDA invite the public to provide written comments on two reports: The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD) Alcohol Intake and Health (AIH) draft report and The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's (NASEM) Review of Evidence on Alcohol and Health report.
Learn More🚫USDA Withdraws Proposed SNAP Quality Control Rule for 2025
This document informs the public that FNS is withdrawing the proposed rule titled, "Provisions to Improve the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program's Quality Control System," that published in the Federal Register on September 19, 2023, and its correction on December 19, 2023. This rule proposed amendments to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) regulations to strengthen and improve the integrity and accuracy of the SNAP quality control (QC) system as requested by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.
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