January 23, 2016
The Department of Justice announced yesterday that Delaware-based Roos Foods Inc. has “signed a plea agreement in which it has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor violation of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA)” and has agreed to “a proposed consent decree of permanent injunction” that would halt production until the Roos facilities are brought into line with federal standards.
December 16, 2015
At long last, those who answer to a higher Cheese law will finally be able to partake in the goodness that is authentic Parmigiano-Reggiano.
November 12, 2015
The good folks at Food Safety News flagged a fascinating report from the National Conference of State Legislatures (“NCSL”) entitled “State Milk Laws.” The 88 page document summarizes state laws pertaining to the consumption and sale of raw milk, culminating in the fascinating graphic reproduced below.
September 8, 2015
With Greek and Turkish Cypriots having found common ground in their quest to make halloumi a “protected designation of origin” (“PDO”) under EU law, backlash off the island has only grown.
August 20, 2015
News outlets are reporting today that the Russian government has arrested six individuals affiliated with a criminal ring attempting to import and sell 460 tons of contraband cheese “worth about 2 billion rubles, or nearly $30 million.” According to the reports, the smugglers had repackaged the cheese using the “fake labels of the world’s leading producers.”
August 3, 2015
A number of publications including the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian have run stories over the last few weeks on Japan’s escalating “Butter Shortage.”
July 23, 2015
With the Mediterranean World teetering on the brink of economic collapse, what else would politicians do but negotiate the finer points of cheese law?
July 3, 2015
Comments are due July 27, 2015 for a recently proposed USDA rule that would update the agency’s organic regulations by, inter alia,
June 25, 2015
Taking aim at the anti-GMO crowd, Jon Entine & XiaoZhi Lim at the Genetic Literacy Project posit that “almost all the hard cheese made in the United States, and in much of the West, uses a genetically engineered protein that is made from genetically engineered yeast and bacteria to make cheese.”
May 11, 2015
British aphorist G.K. Chesterton once lamented that “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” In truth, lawyers have not fared much better.