Health Care Law News and Insights

Key takeaways New requirements will apply to baby food in California starting in 2025. Manufacturers must publicly disclose test results and must include information on product labels regarding heavy metal content. FDA draft guidance on heavy metals in baby food expected in 2024. New requirements for baby food in California...

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The highly anticipated rule, which would make explicit that LDTs are medical devices subject to FDA oversight, proposes to end the agency's general enforcement discretion approach to such devices. On September 29, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") announced a proposed rule to amend its regulations to make explicit its position that in...

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On 7 October 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 418 (known as the California Food Safety Act) that bans four additives from use in food. The additives in question (brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben, and red dye 3) are cleared for certain uses at the federal level under the...

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