• On May 9, 2025, FDA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the launch of the new Nutrition Regulatory Science Program, a joint initiative to research diet-related chronic diseases and inform food and nutrition policy.
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• On May 9, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of three new food color additives derived from natural sources.  This development follows the agency’s late-April announcement of its intension to collaborate with industry stakeholders

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• On May 8, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) extended the public comment period for its proposed rule on front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labeling by 60 days.  Stakeholders now have until July 15, 2025, to submit feedback.
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• On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its intend to expand the use of unannounced inspections at foreign manufacturing facilities that produce food, as well as essential medicines and other medical products intended for American

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• Yesterday FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response & Evaluation (CORE) Network announced the release its 2023 annual report summarizing food-borne outbreak and adverse events in FDA-regulated foods.
• In 2023, the CORE Signals and Surveillance Team, which evaluates emerging outbreaks and disease surveillance

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• FDA is “set to rehire some of the staff that was let go during mass firings in the past three months.” Earlier this year around 3,500 FDA employees, or around 20 percent of its workforce, was let go without

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