Safety Around Holiday Plants
The holiday season is in full swing and with it comes the festive decorating and bringing some of the holiday’s traditional plants into...
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Burdock Group
- Nov 5, 2018
- 6 min
Food Fortification in the Age of Personalized Nutrition
Food manufacturing processes and procedures can at times lead to degradation, removal or omission of nutrients typically found in the...
Burdock Group
- Oct 1, 2018
- 5 min
The Ever-Elusive Exercise-in-a-Pill
The concept of creating exercise in a pill, which in theory would allow for loss of body fat without a diet or exercise intervention, has...
burdockgroupconsul
- Sep 6, 2018
- 3 min
Dietary Supplements Containing Pure or Highly Concentrated Caffeine – Potential Adulteration
In response to the increase in caffeinated dietary supplements in the marketplace and public health risks associated with oral intakes of...
burdockgroupconsul
- Sep 5, 2018
- 3 min
USDA Statement on Genome Editing Puts Future of Food Innovation at Risk
On March 28, 2018, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue made an an announcement that new plant varieties produced using genome...
burdockgroupconsul
- Aug 6, 2018
- 6 min
Cell-Cultured Meat: Who Will Regulate, FDA or USDA?
Does the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have the regulatory tools and experience necessary to regulate cell-cultured “meat”? In a...
burdockgroupconsul
- Jul 10, 2018
- 3 min
Phytonutrients Beneficial Food Components, but Safety Testing Still Necessary
The term “phytonutrient” is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a bioactive plant-derived compound (such as resveratrol)...
burdockgroupconsul
- Jul 10, 2018
- 6 min
Proposed Rule for Labeling Bioengineered Foods: Key Information for Stakeholders
The proposed rule for the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) was recently released by the Agricultural Marketing...
burdockgroupconsul
- Jun 5, 2018
- 8 min
Can a Food Be a Drug and a Supplement?
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” — Hippocrates of Cos (ca.460 BC – ca. 370 BC) The Drug-Like Properties of Foods Many...
burdockgroupconsul
- Jun 5, 2018
- 4 min
Virulent Newcastle Disease Confirmed in Backyard Chickens in California
Ten cases of virulent Newcastle disease (vND) have been confirmed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in backyard...
burdockgroupconsul
- May 1, 2018
- 4 min
“Informed Decision Making” a Priority for Responsible Stakeholders in Dietary Supplement
The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) is the home to the National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR), a division of the...
burdockgroupconsul
- May 1, 2018
- 10 min
FDA’s Hostile Take-Over of GRAS, Part III: It Started Earlier Than We Think
You would think any application of the GRAS1 process would be a legitimate pathway to federal compliance unless expressly prohibited by...
burdockgroupconsul
- Apr 3, 2018
- 11 min
Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2018
The cosmetics industry has been largely self-regulating since passage of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938; however, the proposed...
burdockgroupconsul
- Apr 3, 2018
- 4 min
“Natural” Ingredients in Dietary Supplements for Sports Nutrition: Unfounded Assumption of Safety
In 2016, sports nutrition dietary supplements sales in the United States (U.S.) totaled $5.7 billion dollars, which was approximately...
burdockgroupconsul
- Mar 6, 2018
- 6 min
FDA’s Hostile Take-Over of GRAS, Part II: FDA’s Assault on Legitimacy of GRAS Expert Pan
The week of November 13, 2017, is notable because FDA released two documents relating to guidance for conclusions of GRAS1 status and...
burdockgroupconsul
- Mar 6, 2018
- 3 min
Food Safety Plans: Risk-Based Preventive Controls
In Burdock Group’s February newsletter, we discussed key requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), such as Food Safety...
burdockgroupconsul
- Feb 6, 2018
- 1 min
What do organic fertilizer, cow milk and rheumatoid arthritis have in common?
At the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine, researchers have found a link between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and...
burdockgroupconsul
- Feb 6, 2018
- 5 min
“Self”-GRAS in AAFCO’s Official Publication a Win-Win
A newsletter article published in the Burdock Advisor a year ago1 described an existential threat to the AAFCO system of approval of Feed...
burdockgroupconsul
- Feb 6, 2018
- 4 min
FSMA Key Requirements: Food Safety Plans and Preventive Controls Qualified Individuals
In case you were not already overwhelmed with the acronyms used in the food industry and associated regulations, the Food Safety...
burdockgroupconsul
- Jan 9, 2018
- 5 min
Filing a Citizen Petition to FDA: How It Works and What It Can Accomplish
Is there a regulation or order related to food that you would like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue, amend or revoke?...
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