The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration are sponsoring a public meeting on February 22, 2011 to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 43rd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which will be held in Xiamen (Fujian Province), China, March 14-18, 2011.
Commissioner Nord of the Consumer Product Safety Commission states in her blog that several CPSC regulations would qualify under President Obama's newly announced Regulatory Policy as regulations that should be rooted out because, in the President's words, "they have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs. . .are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb.” For example, she believes that the August 2010 final rule on the definition of children’s products is both "costly and dumb" as it impose expensive and burdensome third-party testing on products that were not traditionally thought of as children’s products - such as carpets and rugs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration are sponsoring a public meeting on February 9, 2011 to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 32nd session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS) of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary March 7 -- 11, 2011.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration are sponsoring a public meeting to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 22nd Session of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils (CCFO), which will be held in Penang, Malaysia, February 21-25, 2011. The public meeting will be held on Feb. 9, 2011 in College Park, MD.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall:
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on January 19, 2011, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.
The Government Accountability Office determined in a report to Congress that the Food and Drug Administration needs to reassess its approach and obtain new authority to better protect consumers from false or misleading claims on food labels.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Independent testing commissioned by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has found high levels of lead in Disney “Toy Story” and “Cars” reusable plastic shopping bags purchased from Safeway. Testing of the bags found more than 15 times the federal limit for lead in children’s products. CEH is demanding that the bags be immediately removed from sale and reformulated and has asked the Consumer Product Safety Commission to investigate.