A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Food Ingredient Safety: Understanding Evolving Laws and Managing Compliance Challenges

April 30, 2024 10:45am

John Luedke
Global General Counsel, Food Law
MARS, Inc.

Hih Song Kim
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
BlueTriton Brands

Smitha G. Stansbury
Partner
King & Spalding LLP

  • Assessing the scope of FDA’s authority to regulate the safety of food ingredients
  • Understanding the impact that FDA guidance has on state-level ingredient safety regulation
  • Best practices for exercising supply chain caution when importing and exporting certain ingredients
  • Identifying states that have developed their own rules surrounding ingredient safety
    • Breaking down the California Food Safety Act and its implications
    • Analyzing New York’s new bill prohibiting certain food additives and color additives
  • Understanding the impact of state-level ingredient safety regulation on food companies when it comes to:
    • Sourcing ingredients
    • Selling or transporting products through interstate commerce
  • Evaluating the response of trade associations to state-level regulation of ingredients
    • Will trade associations push for legislation to pre-empt states from continuing to create their own rules governing ingredient safety?
  • Forecasting the impact that increased state-level ingredient bans will have on the food industry
    • Does FDA have the authority to intervene?
  • Examining the new bill proposing the establishment of the Office of Food Safety Reassessment
    • How will this alter regulatory procedures?