FDA Updates Food Categories In Rare Guidance With 'Binding Effect'

FDA's recently issued guidance on modifications to food product categories for food facility registration includes language that is binding on industry, to the surprise of industry lawyers and advocates. Although the binding nature of the guidance is not unprecedented -- guidances from 2003 and 2012 modifying food product categories for food facility registrations contained much of the same language -- it is rare. GOP lawmakers have raised concerns that various agencies, including FDA, are treating guidance documents as if they...