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The USDA is answerable for the overseeing farming, ranching, and forestry industries, as well as regulating aspects of food quality & safety and nutrition labeling.
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First Certified Color Regulations, requested by manufacturers and users, list seven colors found suitable for use in foods.
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Food and Drug Administration law, or FDA law, is the body of law that administers food, cosmetic and drug manufacturing and sale in the United States.
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prohibits the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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rohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.
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prohibits the introduction of misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs in interstate commerce
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authorizes FDA standards of quality and fill-of-container for canned food, excluding meat and milk products.
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The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (APA) is a federal law passed in 1938. The law set quality standards for food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics manufactured and sold in the United States. The law also provided for federal oversight and enforcement of these standards.
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"GRAS" is an acronym used by federal regulatory agencies to refer to substances that are used as food additives, but are considered to be "Generally Recognized As Safe” when used in accord with good manufacturing practices.
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Requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban food additives which are found to cause or cause cancer
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Congress recognized that many food substances would not require a formal premarket review by FDA to assure their safety
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The Color Additive Amendments of 1960 defined "color additive" and mandatory that only color additives (except coal-tar hair dyes) listed as "suitable and safe" for a given use could be used in foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.
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gave FDA broad new responsibilities for pro- tection of the public from hazards of a fantas- tically varied assortment of substances through labeling.
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directs the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration to issue regulations requiring that all consumer commodities
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United States federal statute enacting requirements for a scientific observation regarding the impurities in potential toxicity
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Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to deem a food misbranded unless its label bears nutrition information that provides
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The Food Code represents best practices regarding safe food storage, handling, and preparation.
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Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA): Manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements and dietary ingredients are banned from marketing products that are adulterated or misbranded.Aug 16, 2019
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The seafood HACCP regulation depend on seafood processors to identify food safety hazards that are reasonably likely to occur and to develop plans for the control of those hazards. ... Importantly, several of the regulations that FDA has issued under FSMA provide exemptions related to the seafood HACCP regulation.
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requires that the label of a food that contains an ingredient that is or contains protein from a major food allergen
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ensures the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus to preventing contamination of the food supply, rather than responding to it.