Orton Motor Company won a significant victory for tobacco retailers in recent weeks, successfully convincing a judge that the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products has exceeded its authority in its tobacco enforcement efforts. The legal battle was waged alongside the National Association for Convenience Stores.
02-29-2016 Proposed Rule would require retailers to offer for sale a number of additional food items to redeem SNAP benefits. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a proposed rule Feb. 16 […]
02-16-2016 The U.S. House of Representatives voted 266 to 144 on Feb. 12 in favor of H.R. 2017, the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act.
02-12-2016 President Obama on Jan. 28 signed into law the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015, which requires the packaging of liquid nicotine containers for use in electronic cigarettes to be subject to existing child poisoning prevention packaging standards. The legislation requires that all liquid-nicotine containers have packaging that makes it difficult for children under five years old to open.
02-05-2016 黑料社区recently met with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to discuss an impending rulemaking that will enhance the regulatory obligations that retailers — particularly travel plazas and convenience stores — must meet to redeem Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
01-15-2016 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to authorize a study of e-cigarette sales and marketing, potentially injecting itself into a contentious debate that will become more intense in the coming months when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to adopt a final rule regulating electronic cigarettes and vapor/liquid nicotine products.
01-14-2016 The Obama Administration released new advice about what Americans should eat to stay healthy, as well as a proposed regulation related to the use of photo identification requirements on Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards used for the redemption of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps.
01-08-2016 The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act contains a penalty structure under which penalties increase in severity for each successive violation a retailer commits (e.g., the penalty for a […]
12-03-2015 The Food and Drug Administration has issued a rule to extend its authority to regulate tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vape-pens, which are currently unregulated at the federal level. In […]
12-03-2015 The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Nov. 18 voted 36 to 12 in favor of the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act (H.R. 2017).
11-20-2015 The Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act cleared a key House panel Nov. 4, setting the stage for a Committee vote on legislation that would make the Food and Drug Administration鈥檚 menu labeling regulations less burdensome on small businesses. The House Energy and Commerce Committee could mark up the bill, which advanced out of the Subcommittee on Health, by mid-November.
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