Eric F. Greenberg

Contributing Editor

Food’s Identity Crises, Part II: Standard Stuff Gets Reconsidered

Last month, we explored the way the increasingly innovative world of new foods presents challenges to regulators, what with non-meat-containing meat substitutes and food proteins from sources like insects, and discussed the controversies over how to name the foods.

Food’s Identity Crises

More and more consumers are saying they want food packagers to provide products incorporating topsoil.

Make your lawyer happy: plan ahead

A few weeks ago, I read a positively gushy magazine article profiling several companies’ elaborate and enthusiastic plans for branding and marketing ingestible products containing cannabidiol, or CBD.

Engineering a mess

Bioengineered foods are, as of last December, the subject of new labeling regulations, complete with requirements, options and exemptions, and a rousing fight song.

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Companies stay alert as there’s no obvious slowing at FDA

One might expect these to be sleepy times at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, seeing as how its commissioner recently resigned, and that it’s part of an administration that has a dogmatically anti-regulatory philosophy.

Extended EPR may point directly at packaging

For those tracking environment-related laws affecting packaging, it’s getting harder to know where to look.

Simple advice takes a complex regulatory path

Sometimes, a simple, everyday action can do wonders for one’s health.

Packaging as team player

Packaging often works best as part of a team.

Eric F. Greenberg

FDA supplements its efforts

One of FDA’s goals is to see to it that consumers can trust dietary supplements. Its recent actions against companies making false claims is one step in that direction.

‘Meat’ the regulators who tackle the tough questions

Today I want to talk about how federal regulators do their jobs.

Eric F. Greenberg

Shutdown starts up thought

Americans could think hard for the first time about the importance of various government functions when they lose non-essential activities.

Packaging as cargo: out the door, but not out of mind

If you design or manufacture retail product packaging, you might not give much thought to what happens to it once it’s out of your facility.

Despite lots of recall advice, companies often left wondering

Food recalls nowadays are quite common, and they are the subject of a lot of advice and some legal and regulatory requirements. And yet, recalls often leave companies confused.