When Bad Study Design Comes Back to Bite You
A recent study published by Séralini et al. (Séralini study) about the long term toxicity of Roundup® herbicide and Roundup-tolerant...
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Feb 28, 20135 min read
Nanotechnology – A Game Changer for Pet Food
Only once in a generation does there come along a new technology that can truly change the way we think about a subject – such is the...
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Feb 28, 20135 min read
How Low Do You Go? Food Allergen Thresholds
Millions of Americans have allergic reactions to food every year. While most food allergies cause relatively mild and minor symptoms,...
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Feb 28, 20136 min read
Diacetyl: Inhalation of a GRAS Substance Not GRAS When It Came to Lung Disease
Nearly everyone knows how it feels to swallow a bite of food or sip of beverage that “goes down the wrong pipe”, what physicians call...
Burdock Group Consultants
Dec 1, 20127 min read
Grandfathered Dietary Ingredients, DSHEA, and the New Draft Guidance
Dietary ingredients having a “history of use” in accordance with the “Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994” (DSHEA) are...
Burdock Group Consultants
Dec 1, 20125 min read
Developing Hidden Intellectual Property Assets is an Effective Way to Build a Nutritional Portfolio
Intellectual property (IP) assets have come into the spotlight with the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA), the U.S. Patent reform...
Burdock Group Consultants
Dec 1, 20123 min read
Consultant’s Corner: What are Food Safety Audits?
Food Safety Audits are on-site inspections of facilities’ production lines and processes. During these inspections, our experienced...
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Sep 1, 20125 min read
The Heated Debate over FTC Claims Substantiation and the Definition of “Competent and Reliable” Scie
Substantiation of health claims has been under scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since its 1972 decision in the Pfizer case,...
Burdock Group Consultants
Sep 1, 20124 min read
Proposition 37: A Deceptive Measure That Could Be Applied to Foods Produced by Conventional Methods
A California initiative (Proposition 37) which would require the labeling of genetically engineered foods, has qualified for the November...
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Sep 1, 20125 min read
Claims: The US vs. the European Perspective (Part 4). Will the FDA permit the same claim?
This article, which focuses on a health claim approved by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) on cocoa flavanols, is the fourth in a...
Burdock Group Consultants
Sep 1, 20124 min read
A Rational Solution for New Dietary Ingredient Notifications
“What kind of animal is man, that he creates his own cage”? – Anonymous Despite the fact that 18 years have elapsed since passage of the...
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Jul 1, 201210 min read
The GRAS Process: Does it Need an Overhaul?
The following is an adaptation of a recent article published by the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) in their June 2012 newsletter....
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Jul 1, 20123 min read
Bisphenol A: EFSA Call for Data on Exposure from Dietary and Non-Dietary Sources
Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in the manufacture of food contact materials such as polycarbonate bottles and can linings. In 2007, the...
Burdock Group Consultants
Mar 1, 20124 min read
What Does “Natural” Mean, Anyway?
The term “natural” may be found on labels of a variety of products, from food, to dietary supplements. But how is the term “natural”...
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Mar 1, 20122 min read
New draft NDIN guidance – Timeline
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) enacted on October 14, 1994 and signed into law on October 25, 1994 Dividing...
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Mar 1, 20125 min read
ADME: An essential component of the safety assessment of nanoscale food ingredients
Nanotechnology has the potential to transform the entire food industry by changing the way food is produced, processed, packaged,...
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Dec 1, 20113 min read
Slowly Poisoning Fido, But With All the Best Intentions
Because a pet is now as much a member of the family as any other household inhabitant, “pet parents” (self-described pet owners), are now...
Burdock Group Consultants
Dec 1, 20113 min read
Holiday Fare and Pets
“Mistletoe, holly, Santa Claus jolly… and, oops! The pet’s not feeling so well.” Not the best theme song for the holiday season. Although...
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Dec 1, 20116 min read
Animal Feed Ingredient Regulations Turmoil and Trouble to No Good End?
Following the 1958 Amendment to the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA or “the Act”), the Centers regulating human and animal...
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Sep 1, 20116 min read
FDA’s New Draft Interpretation of DSHEA: Notifications by the Number
On July 1, 2011, four days ahead of the July 5th deadline imposed by the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, the Food and Drug...
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