Dairy Lobby Uses FDA’s Deregulatory Push To Lobby For Changes To Standards Of Identity

February 22, 2018 at 7:57 PM
Despite FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s frequent quips that FDA’s standards of identity for food are the types of regulations FDA can scrap pursuant to President Donald Trump’s deregulatory executive orders, one food lobby is using FDA’s docket on expendable regulations to argue FDA should expand, rather than scrap, certain standards of identity. The move is the latest in a series of industry attempts to maneuver FDA’s food definitions to work to their industry’s advantage, and lawmakers on both sides of...


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