"First we eat, then we do everything else.” - MFK Fisher
FSMA Produce Safety Rule Inspections To Start Early 2020
The FDA announced today that routine FSMA inspections of small farms (other than sprout farms) are slated to commence in Spring of 2020, but if states (like Vermont) that receive funding as part of the State Produce Implementation Cooperative Agreement …
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Vermont Food Producers Earn 8 sofi™ Awards, Proving Once Again That Vermont Has Clout in Specialty Foods
The Specialty Food Association has been presenting sofi™ Awards to the best and most innovative specialty food products for 47 years. Fifty-eight judges from the food industry, including chefs, culinary instructors, recipe developers, food journalists and buyers conduct blind tasting …
FDA Posts a Picture of a Cannabis Leaf
In today’s Consumer Update, “What You Need to Know (and What We’re Working to Find Out) About Products Containing Cannabis or Cannabis-derived Compounds, Including CBD,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged the rapid expansion of CBD products on offer …
Round One: what to know about the FDA’s first hearing on CBD in food, beverages and topicals
Feature photo credit: Rick Proctor on Unsplash You’d have to be really dedicated to the topic of CBD regulation to waste a fine summery Friday to watch the FDA’s public hearing on “Scientific Data and Information About Products Containing …
Presentation to the Vermont Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting
Two Gravel & Shea colleagues and I presented seminars last week at the Vermont Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting in Lake Morey. Navah Spero and Livia DeMarchis presented Probate 101. The session, intended to provide a broad overview of the Vermont probate court, was …
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FDA Breaking News
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottleib has just announced that he is resigning from his post. He expects to be out the door within a month. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/fda-commissioner-scott-gottlieb-is-resigning.html We can only speculate about his replacement, but could it be 54-year old Frank M. …
Romainageddon: How Blockchain Could Have Stopped the Romaine Crisis
2018 was a bad year for lettuce. On January 10, 2018 the CDC reported that a 2017 E. coli outbreak “likely related to” unidentified “leafy greens” had ended. The multi-state outbreak involving infections in 15 U.S. states and five Canadian …
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