Food regulation within the EU is tight but the Jelly Bean Factory is meticulous in its production.
Researchers writing in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease have called for alcohol control as a model for food regulation.
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Following long-standing precedents in food regulation, the FDA requires special labeling only when a new food raises questions of safety, nutrition, or proper usage.
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Without it, the old ways of food regulation, farm testing, commodity handling and public consultation would not have been shaken up and hauled into the 21st century.
Beijing this month said it would streamline the food-regulation regime, in part to address safety concerns.
Not only this, but once the protein was switched on, the mice started eating more, suggesting that it was part of a pathway involving the regulation of food intake.
But these are unusual times for drug development and its regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Legislators are considering regulation changes for food trucks, which have exploded in popularity in recent years and are governed separately.
While I agree that lemonade stands are beyond the scope of what is supposed to be the purpose of government regulation of the food industry.
Federal regulation requires that food labels be truthful and not misleading and prohibits label statements that are likely to be misunderstood by consumers even if they are strictly accurate.
With industry insiders saying shoppers should prepare themselves for more uncomfortable truths, Richard Bilton asks whether 'light touch' regulation of the food industry has left the stable door open to cowboys.
In Canada, the drinks were recently reclassified as food, and thus are subject to regulation by Health Canada.
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Dixon-Woods agrees that better food labeling, more education, and stricter regulation is necessary to reduce misunderstanding and negative attitudes about nut allergies especially in the United States, where peanut-based products are ubiquitous and the word allergy is frequently used to describe non-life-threatening conditions such as hay fever.
His fiery YouTube video last month drew more than 200, 000 views, was the basis of headlines in the Los Angeles Times, and rallied the food police to renew their campaign for more government regulation against his sole stated cause of obesity: under-regulated corporate peddlers of inexpensive calories.
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Well-meaning activists are dusting off their old strategies of research, regulation, and litigation to use against Big Food.
There are hundreds of genes that play a role in weight regulation and many were designed for survival when food was scarce.
Further afield in Seattle where chains are also now required to display calories (the practice also spread to California), a study of 37 sit-down and quick service burger, pizza, sandwich, and Tex-Mex chains in the area found fast-food entrees contained about 19 less calories only 18 months after the regulation was implemented.
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The FTC praised the Better Business Bureau's Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative for making "major strides" in self-regulation, but urged more progress.
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Meanwhile, advertisers have released their own study arguing that self-regulation, as opposed to government-imposed restraints, are sufficient to combat dubious food and health claims in advertising.
The Food and Drug Administration just held its first public meeting to set the course for the future regulation of prescription drugs and medical devices in this country.
The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee hold their second session of the week on the outcome of the Farming Regulation Task Force - having heard from the task force chair on Tuesday, the interested parties duke it out on Wednesday.
Regulation has had its place, but it has proved no more likely to produce great medicine than food inspectors are to produce great food.
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