On 1 October 2023, the UK will ban single-use plastics, with the guidance having been released on 23 May. The EU have also released wide-ranging guidance on plastics.
Which areas of food and beverage will attract regulators’ attention this year? From HFSS laws to food safety inspections, lawyers from Squire Patton Boggs take us through the predicted trends for 2023.
Although grain and food processors should have already completed their Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA) in order to avoid non-compliance and the potential liability risks, there's lots to still consider what the next steps will be.
Cambridge-based biotech start-up, Impossible Materials, has developed a sustainable cellulose-derived white pigment to replace “unsafe” titanium dioxide (TiO2) across food and pharma industries.
An 2020 Italian study has hinted that infants between 6- and 18-months have a 87% to 94% probability of carcinogenic exposure from weaning foods like biscuits.
The American Bakers Association (ABA) was among 13 trade groups that asked the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use discretion in its initial enforcement of updated labeling rules – set for January 1, 2020.
The nation’s Ministry of Health has decreed that all foods sold in Singapore – including bakery and snacks, whether made locally or imported – must be PHO-free within two years.
The American Bakers Association (ABA) worked with the Texas state legislature to buoy a bill that would criminalize the theft of bakers’ private property – mainly baking trays co-opted and sold as recycled plastic abroad.
Eat Your Coffee has launched the bite-sized version of its vegan, gluten-free, caffeinated bites to coincide with the 26.2 days leading up to one of the world’s most popular marathons on April 15. Sales will benefit Fresh Truck, a mobile market that delivers...
The free-to-use program will accept all of KP’s line of nuts, popcorn, crisps and pretzels; however, it excludes potato chip tubes and packages that contained seeds, nutrient powder, dried fruit or meat snacks.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI) has agreed, in principal, to reduce the trans-fat content in vanaspati and bakery shortenings and margarines to less than 2% by 2022.
French ingredient supplier Roquette has teamed up with a German biotech company and a natural product specialist to develop and bring to market natural sweeteners and sweetness enhancers.
Concern over misuse of the term ‘free-from’ in relation to allergens in food products and a need for greater standardisation of manufacturing practices has led the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) to produce new...
US meat processors have dismissed proposals that the industry needs unique anti-trust and competition regulation in the face of the growing trend of concentration of ownership within the sector.
The UK’s Food Standards Agency is introducing a programme of industry secondments for its staff, so it can have better understanding of how compliance might work when it is developing or negotiating regulations.
In the US, the role of court action in defining limits not set by
regulators is generating a flood of costly court cases for the food
industry: much unnecessary, and all damaging.
Low-carb foods continue to pose a major threat to grain-based food
producers, but bakers are not taking the challenge lying down.
Indeed, one grain-users association in America, the market hardest
hit by the low-carb phenomenon, has...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published two of the
major interim final regulations implementing the Public Health
Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act in the
Federal Register on Friday.
