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04/17/2019

U.S. Trade Representative Requests Comments on Potential E.U. Tariffs

On Friday, April 12, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) initiated an investigation to enforce the United States’ rights resulting from the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute that the US filed against the European Union (EU) challenging EU subsidies on large civil aircraft.

04/09/2019

Why FDA seeks to limit fluoride in bottled water?

On April 3, 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a proposed rule that lowers the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in some bottled water products. If finalized, the rule would place an upper limit of 0.7 milligrams per liter of fluoride in bottled water to which fluoride is added.....

04/09/2019

See the latest on FDA's road toward a policy on cannabis-derived substance (like CBD) in foods and supplements and the Agency's most recent CBD enforcement.... https://www.ofwlaw.com/2019/04/04/fda-begins-to-move-on-cbd-policy-and-enforcement/

03/25/2019

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently made available a draft guidance titled "Rare Diseases: Natural History Studies for Drug Development, Guidance for Industry." This guidance is intended to help inform the design and implementation of natural history studies that can be used to support the development of safe and effective drugs and biological products for rare diseases. See more at

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03/18/2019

See our latest blog on the compliance date extension for the Produce Rule's ag water requirement:

As initially announced last week by outgoing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., the compliance dates for FDA’s agricultural water quality requirements under the “Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption” rule...

03/18/2019

See our latest blog from John Block, former Secretary of Agriculture:

Issues of the Day. The President’s Budget. If everything goes according to plan, when we enter our next fiscal year, October 1, we will have a budget passed by the Congress with President Trump’s signature. The process has started. It is a 4.7 trillion-dollar budget. President Trump wants an inc...