The Food and Drug Administration has released its "Food Protection Plan: an Integrated Strategy for Protecting the Nation's Food Supply," which addresses both food safety and food defense for domestic and imported products, and encompasses three core elements.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a notice reminding the public of the fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008) user fees for agricultural quarantine and inspection (AQI) services provided in connection with certain commercial vessels, commercial trucks, commercial railroad cars, commercial aircraft, and international airline passengers arriving at ports in the customs territory of the U.S.
Port Security News reports that in test cases at the Los Angeles and Chicago international airports, Transportation Security Administration screeners failed 75% and 60% of the time, respectively, to find fake small bomb parts (some the size of pen caps) that were smuggled onboard airplanes. However, in San Francisco, where screeners work for a private company, the failure rate was 20%. (Port Security News, dated 10/22/07, available at http://portsecuritynews.com/news/templates/registered.asp?articleid=1790&zoneid=1)
Spending little time on statutory issues raised by the American Radio Relay League in its brief challenging the FCC’s broadband over power line rules, a panel of judges of the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit focused during oral arguments Tuesday on questions such as whether BPL emissions create harmful interference to mobile ham services and what is the FCC’s duty to make public the staff analyses the agency bases rules on.
Spending little time on statutory issues raised by the American Radio Relay League in its brief challenging the FCC’s broadband over power line rules, a panel of judges of the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit focused during oral arguments Tuesday on questions such as whether BPL emissions create harmful interference to mobile ham services and what is the FCC’s duty to make public the staff analyses the agency bases rules on.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has issued a notice extending the comment period of its July 2007 proposed rule to consider new labeling requirements for wine, distilled spirits, and malt beverages (alcoholic beverages) to provide consumers with adequate information about such products.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a final rule that amends 16 CFR Part 1211, Safety Standards for Automatic Residential Garage Door Operators, to reflect the revised garage door entrapment provisions of Underwriter Laboratories, Inc. (UL) standard UL 325.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a notice which extends the comment period on its August 24, 2007 interim final rule that established an alternative to its requirement of 100% identity testing of dietary ingredients in supplements1.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a final rule, effective November 19, 2007, that will amend 9 CFR Parts 93-96 to establish conditions for the importation of live bovines and certain bovine products from regions that present a minimal risk of introducing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, aka mad cow disease). Currently only Canada qualifies.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a notice requesting written comments on its "Special 301" out-of-cycle reviews (OCRs) of Brazil, the Czech Republic, and Pakistan regarding their intellectual property rights protection and enforcement.