The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) recently released its competed Scientific Advisory Report, which will serve as the basis of the recommendations in the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans is due to be released by December 2020. This memorandum summarizes several of the major takeaways from the DGAC’s Scientific
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FDA Reopens Comments on Proposed Rule to Modernize Food Standards of Identity
By Elizabeth Fawell & Leigh Barcham on
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is reopening the comment period on a 2005 proposed rule to establish a set of general principles to use when considering whether to establish, revise, or eliminate a food standard of identity (SOI). 1/ The 2005 proposed rule adopted the approach of elaborating a set…
FDA Public Meeting: Horizontal Approaches to Food Standards of Identity Modernization
By Elizabeth Fawell, Veronica Colas & Leigh Barcham on
On September 27, 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hosted a public meeting to gather information from stakeholders on changes the agency could make to existing standards of identity (SOIs), particularly changes that could be made across categories of standardized foods (i.e., “horizontal” changes), to provide flexibility for the development of healthier foods…