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

On June 8, 2023, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced it will not proceed with the Proposition 65 listing process for antimony (trivalent compounds) as a substance known to cause cancer. OEHHA had announced on September 30, 2022, that it intended to list antimony (trivalent compounds) as a carcinogen under Proposition 65 pursuant to the “Labor Code” listing mechanism.

On May 31, 2023, Washington State’s Department of Ecology (DoE) adopted a final rule under the state’s Safer Products for Washington Program, which includes a ban on bisphenol-based epoxy liners in drink cans and a reporting requirement for bisphenol-based epoxy liners in food cans. Tetramethyl bisphenol F (TMBPF)-based epoxy can liners are exempted from both the ban and reporting requirement. 

For the ninth consecutive year, Chambers USA has ranked Keller and Heckman’s Food and Drug practice as a Band 1 firm in the Food and Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation – Nationwide category. Keller and Heckman was one of only five firms to attain the Band 1 position. Additionally, Partners Devon Wm.

California Assembly Bill 418—which would ban the manufacture, sale, and distribution of any food product that contains titanium dioxide, brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye #3—passed the State Assembly on May 15, 2023. AB 418 was then read in the Senate on May 16, which is also expected to pass the bill. It was referred to the State Senate Committees on Health and Environmental Quality on May 24.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution. This publication proposes voluntary actions aimed at eliminating the release of plastic waste from land-based sources by 2040 and focuses on actions to reduce, reuse, collect, and capture plastic waste.

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