Bloomberg News (4/23, Gullo) reports that a Federal judge on Monday ruled that the US Food and Drug Administration “is violating food-safety law by delaying regulations intended to help prevent outbreaks of food-borne illnesses.”
US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton “in Oakland, California, said the agency has ‘admittedly failed to comply with the mandatory rule-making schedule’ of the Food Safety and Modernization Act,” which President Obama signed into law by “in January 2011.
The FDA had 18 months to issue new regulations. The agency said the “aggressive timelines” have “proven to be unachievable,” Hamilton said in a ruling.” She “ordered the FDA to come up with proposed deadlines for regulations by May 20.”
Agra-Net.com (4/23) reports the “final menu labeling rules are in the ‘home stretch’ and will be published this year. New legislation would be needed to charge the food industry additional fees to help pay for the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. And FDA is doubling its comment period for the preventive controls and produce safety proposals it published in January,” according to testimony FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg gave recently “before the FDA-USDA appropriations subcommittee.”
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