Yes, I know how that sounds. But the regulations are crucially important to food companies, so it’s useful to watch them develop and perhaps even get involved.
The typical sequence for agencies making regulations (OK to call them “rules”) is, first, they issue a proposed regulation, inviting the public to comment on it. Second, they mull over all the comments, make changes to the proposal as they see fit, and third, issue the final regulation, revised perhaps in light of the comments, together with detailed explanations of why they did what they did. Fourth, the final regulation becomes effective at some date after its publication.
