WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Legislation that loosens health claim regulations for food products and establishes a premarket notification process to speed approval of new food packaging has been signed into law by President...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- While backing proposals that the government approve bacteria-destroying irradiation for beef, food industry officials told a Senate panel that a plan seeking mandatory recall authority by the U.S...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Congress drew closer to completing a three-year effort to reform the Food and Drug Administration with the recent House vote to approve its version of reform of the agency that regulates food...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The case for irradiating ground beef is being made on Capitol Hill, where efforts are under way to force the Food and Drug Administration to act soon on a petition to approve the controversial...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Almost 100 House members wrote President Clinton last week asking that tougher food protection measures be included in future trade agreements. They also released a report charging that existing...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Congressional advocates of country-of-origin labeling for produce are linking their campaign with food-safety concerns and the upcoming debate over giving the Clinton administration negotiating...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Having won several critical tax cuts in a major tax-reform effort earlier this summer, the supermarket industry is now turning to what remains of its legislative agenda.Congressional Republican...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- A new plan to raise the minimum wage has surfaced on Capitol Hill and is raising concerns in the supermarket industry.While the industry is skeptical of the plan's chances of passage this year...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The battle to reform estate taxes is likely to be only partially successful this year, but supermarket and wholesaler executives are being urged to look beyond 1997.Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., advised...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The grocery industry is opposing a bill introduced by Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., that would restrict the weekly hours and time of day teen-agers can work during the school year.Under the proposed...