FDA has made it abundantly clear on several occasions that there is no “blank check” to use a GRAS substance in any food, at any level.

It’s that time of year again, when cooks turn their attention to foods they will buy for the Thanksgiving meal, where they will buy them...

SupplySide West was held October 5-9 in Las Vegas, NV at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. The show featured 1,216 exhibitors and...

Burdock Group welcomes a new face to the office this month, November 2015, with the addition of Lu Zhao, Ph.D., as Associate Scientist....

California has extended the comment period for the common food ingredient, furfuryl alcohol, for listing as a carcinogen under Proposition 6

The regulation and innovation responsible for the approximate 70% reduction in food spending since 1950[1] has come under fire with some...

Q: If Animal Feed Ingredient Company A obtains GRAS for Ingredient X from a consultant and does not publicize it, would Animal Feed...

In June 2015, the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) issued a guidance document which describes data requirements...

As foreign as it may seem to some, insects have a long history of dietary use in many world cultures.

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) celebrated their 75th annual food meeting and exposition at the McCormick Center in downtown...

The quality of dietary supplements has been under increasing scrutiny as of late. A webinar presented by the Food and Drug Law Institute...

Traditionally, NOAELs from subchronic toxicity studies have been used to determine margins of safety for food ingredients and...

Establishing the safety of a food[1] is essential for the food manufacturer when working to provide a safe product to the consumer. The...

All food and supplement suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers labels be affected by the finalized nutrition label changes, in both the...

In March, 2015 a study was published by Chassaing et al. in Nature entitled “Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota...

According to Food Business News, sales of “gluten free” foods have exploded over recent years, into a $9 billion dollar market in 2014....

Please join Burdock Group in welcoming Alex LeBeau, Ph.D., who joins our team at the headquarters of Burdock Group in Orlando, Fla. Dr....

If a common green pea is added to canned beef stew, the pea is an added ingredient, but do you need to GRAS[1] the pea?  The answer is...

Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) 54th annual meeting held March 22nd-26th in San Diego, California. ToxExpo 2015 hosted 6,900 attendees and...

Nickel is a natural element of the earth’s crust and is found in food, water, soil, and air. Surprisingly, food is the major source of...