The Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), a group that works in conjunction with the U.K. Advertising Standards Authority, has announced a pre-consultation with various stakeholders in advance of new rules targeting non-broadcast advertising of food and soft drinks high in fat, salt or sugar to children. Non-broadcast channels of advertising include online, outdoor, print media, cinema, and direct marketing. “Our decision to carry out a public consultation responds, in part, to changes in children’s media habits and evolving advertising techniques,” according to CAP. “It also reflects a growing consensus, shared by public health and industry bodies, about the role of advertising self-regulation in helping to bring about a change in the nature and balance of food advertising targeted to children.” CAP reportedly plans to launch the public consultation in early 2016. See CAP News Release, September 29, 2015. Issue 580
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has linked a 2013-2014 outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) that killed more than 7 million piglets to Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBCs), the reusable tote bags used to transport and store pig feed. According to an APHIS report, which seeks to explain why PEDv occurred in the United States but not Canada or the European Union, the bags were most likely contaminated in their origin country before distribution to feed mill customers across the Midwest, where they contaminated “feed or ingredients destined for delivery to the farm.” “Several of the farm investigations as well as an early case-control study suggested feed or feed delivery as the source of the outbreak; however, there were no common feed manufacturers, products, or ingredients in the initially infected herds,” states the report, which notes that the PEDv strain found…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule allowing “the safe use of mica-based pearlescent pigments prepared from titanium dioxide and mica as color additives in certain distilled spirits.” Mica-based pearlescent pigments are currently approved as color additives in many foods and beverages, including distilled spirits containing “not less than 18 percent and not more than 23 percent alcohol by volume.” Effective November 5, 2015, the new rule permits the use of these pigments at a level of up to 0.07 percent by weight in distilled spirits containing not less than 18 percent and not more than 25 percent alcohol by volume, while finding that “certification of mica-based pearlescent pigments prepared from titanium dioxide is not necessary for the protection on the public health.” “Regarding cumulative exposure from the current and petitioned uses of mica-based pearlescent pigments, we note that in our recent final rule that…
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