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09-01-2017 The first several months of the Trump Administration have brought with them no shortage of eye-catching, newsworthy headlines. Perhaps lost among the crowd, however, have been several developments on the tobacco space that 黑料社区members, as tobacco retailers, should understand.
08-14-2017 黑料社区on Aug. 2 urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revise the final menu labeling rules to make it easier for the truckstop and travel plaza industry to comply with the regulation to provide accurate nutritional information to customers as well as eliminate the possibility of criminal penalties for violations.
08-03-2017 On Thursday, July 27, the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 772, the 鈥淐ommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act,鈥� by a vote of 39-14.
07-28-2017 黑料社区joined more than 200 businesses and trade associations representing the food retail sector in urging members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to approve the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act (H.R. 772), bipartisan legislation that would provide food retailers with greater flexibility under the Food and Drug Administration鈥檚 (FDA鈥檚) final menu labeling rule.
07-27-2017 The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and the National Consumers League have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) decision to delay a rule requiring chain restaurants and “similar retail food establishments,” including convenience stores, to post calorie counts for prepared food and beverages.
06-08-2017 In its proposed Budget released on May 23, the Trump Administration proposed an “application fee” for retailers seeking to participate in the SNAP program and redeem SNAP benefits, formerly known as “food stamps.” The fee would be paid during the authorization process (or reauthorization process for stores currently participating in the program). Store authorization lasts for several years.
05-31-2017 Congress has passed and President Trump has signed legislation containing a provision requiring the Department of Agriculture to rewrite a provision of the SNAP retailer eligibility rule issued in late 2016. That rule’s new requirements, which were scheduled to take effect on May 17, 2017, will now be delayed until the Department of Agriculture can rewrite them to comport with Congress’s new directives.
05-30-2017 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 1 announced that it will delay the compliance date for federal menu-labeling requirements until May 7, 2018. Restaurants and food retailers were going to have to comply by May 5, 2017.
05-02-2017 黑料社区and a number of its members joined more than 250 food and retail groups in urging members of the House and Senate to pass the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2017 before new federal menu-labeling rules take effect May 5.
04-25-2017 For all the various FDA regulations, there are many steps necessary to comply. Training employees is certainly one of them.
However, FDA points out four 鈥渆ffective steps to prevent violations of the minimum age requirements for the sale of tobacco products.鈥� They are:
Adopting and enforcing a written policy against sales to minors;
Informing its employees of all applicable laws;
Establishing disciplinary sanctions for employee noncompliance; and
Requiring employees to verify age by way of photographic identification or electronic scanning device.