State legislatures have continued to enact privacy laws aimed at protecting kids and teens despite significant—and often successful—legal challenges that largely focus on First Amendment flaws. Some laws have recently gone into effect, or will become effective soon, while others are not slated to take effect until 2027. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
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CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: Main Outcome of the 34th Committee on General Principles (CCGP34)
The 34th session of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on General Principles (CCGP34) successfully addressed all topics on its agenda. CCGP34 endorsed several proposed key changes to the Procedural Manual of the Codex Alimentarius Commission relating to (a) the guidelines for Codex subsidiary bodies (Committees and Task Forces), (b) inconsistencies in language used in the main
FDA Commissioner Outlines Priorities in JAMA Article
- On June 10, 2025, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and FDA CBER Director published an article in JAMA that listed their “priorities for a new FDA.” These priorities included accelerating drug development, using AI for scientific review, “healthier food for children,” “harnessing big data,” and reducing patient costs.
- The JAMA article pointed to FDA’s “phase-out” of
MAHA Report Cites Nonexistent, likely AI-Generated, Studies
- As we previously blogged on May 23, 2025, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission published its report detailing what it claims to be the main causes of chronic diseases. The report is receiving increased scrutiny after News of the United States (NOTUS), a nonprofit digital news site, published an article on Thursday,
FDA Shifts Inspections to States and AI to Help Boost Efficiency
- After a slowdown in FDA inspections during the first quarter of 2025 and the mass departure of over 3,500 employees, FDA is pivoting to state authority and generative AI technology to help the agency “do more with less.” FDA currently has contracts with forty-three states and plans to expand this program to have more states
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: Main Outcomes of 27th Codex Committee on Food Import (and Export) Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS27)
The 27th session of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Import Inspection and Food Export Certification Systems (CCFICS27) made noteworthy progress on a future international guidance on food fraud (including food authenticity and food integrity). It also advanced its consolidation work of existing Codex texts about equivalence in national measures pursuing same safety objective (leading
FDA Public Meetings on Post-Market Assessment of Chemicals in Food
- On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, FDA held a public meeting inviting stakeholders to speak on the Agency’s development of an enhanced systematic process for the post-market assessment of chemicals in food. The meeting began with Deputy Commissioner Jim Jones explaining that the purpose of updating FDA’s post-market assessment is to ensure that safety determinations hold
AI Regulation: The Next Frontier
As the federal government continues to wrestle with the complex issue of regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the wake of the release of President Biden’s Executive Order, states have already proposed or enacted AI regulation, and even more will attempt to tackle the issue in 2024. Two recent developments in AI regulation from California