What’s the FDA connection between 🌽 field corn 🌽and 🐟 frozen seafood 🐟? FDA just revoked the canned field corn food standard and also reshared its results from analyzing frozen seafood. What’s the connect? Both are about economic adulteration (also known as food fraud). There has never really been a market for canned field corn…

Does your summer hike or gardening leave you covered in bug bites and itchy? Learn about the FDA-regulated, OTC drug-product that’ll provide relief in this next edition of FDA Regulates Summer! It also helps if you’ve stepped into that poison ivy patch…

FDA regulates many products that we use with summer fun to ensure their safety and efficacy. We kick-off FDA Regulates Summer with Sunglasses, a medical device.

FDA’s FY2026 Budget Request is out and is a bit different than what we’re used to seeing. Not only is it far shorter at 92 pages (as compared to 284 (FY2025) and 294 (FY2024)), there are several things not mentioned, including cosmetics – the “C” in the FD&C Act. Click through to learn more!

FDA announced on April 22, 2025, their intention for synthetic dyes to be phased out of the U.S. food supply. This applies to the six colorants that are permitted for coloring foods generally, such as Yellow 6, and that people are familiar with. In that same announcement, FDA shared that they will begin the process…

FDA revoking Red 3’s approval as a color additive bring other issues to the forefront: where did the name come from and what does the “FD&C” before Red 40 mean anyways? Click through the following to learn the code. What about those other reds? There were only 5 reds ever approved for food use (1,…

When FDA issued the proposed regulation for front-of-pack nutrition labeling (the Nutrition Info Box), it issued a handout with an illustrative example. The product is a frozen veggie bowl that includes “fresh” basil. However, does this violate 21 CFR 101.95 where FDA defines “fresh” and “fresh frozen”? Thoughts? Perhaps ironically, FDA issued the “fresh” reg…

This holiday season we return to the quack files: the Vision-Dieter Glasses. These blue & red glasses claimed to be a secret European technology for weight loss. While they can’t help you keep off the holiday weight, they have been used by FDA again and again as a quintessential quack (now known as health fraud)….