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On August 1, 2023, the Biden Administration proposed the Sustainable Products and Services Procurement Rule as part of the President’s Investing in America Agenda.

Country of Origin Labeling for Packaging

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently added three new substances to its Inventory of Effective Food Contact Substances (FCS) Notifications. The newly listed substances and the manufacturers are listed below.

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that it is limiting its proposed Proposition 65 No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for antimony trioxide of 0.13 micrograms per day to the inhalation route.

The Rhode Island legislature recently passed a bill to extend the effective date of a ban on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in food packaging from January 1, 2024, until July 31, 2024. The bill, 2023—S0724, which focuses on PFAS in drinking water, groundwater, and surface water, was signed into law by Governor Dan McKee on June 22, 2023.

The topic of our June 13, 2023, Food & Chemicals Unpacked episode was “Pit Stop at Chevron: Will We See a Difference in Deference?” In this episode, we discussed potential changes to a cornerstone of federal administrative law called Chevron Deference. This standard has long governed how much deference federal courts give to decisions made by agencies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is based on a 1984 case, Chevron v.

On June 3, 2023, The Washington State Department of Ecology (DoE) published its Draft Identification of Priority Chemicals Report to the Legislature as a part of the Safer Products for Washington project, cycle 2, implementation phase 1. 

LieAnn Van-Tull, an associate with Keller and Heckman’s Food and Drug Packaging and Tobacco and E-Vapor practice groups, was sworn in as President of the Washington Bar Association (WBA) on June 14, 2023.

On June 7, 2023, U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced the Food Chemical Reassessment Act of 2023. The bill would require the establishment of an Office of Food Safety Reassessment (the Office) within the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and require that the Office reassess the safety of at least ten substances added to food or food packaging every three years, beginning in 2024.