Animal-Based Medical Diagnostics: A Regulatory Problem Matthew Avery and Makenzi Galvan ABSTRACT Fears of global pandemics due to outbreaks of highly virulent diseases like the novel Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) have boosted interest in rapid and non-invasive diagnostics. One solution is to use animal-based diagnostics, which have the potential to be more accurate [...]
Food and Drug Law Journal | Volume 75 | Number 3
After the Juice Wars: The Post-POM Wonderful Legal Landscape and its Implications for FDA-Regulated Industries Rachel Simon ABSTRACT Five years have passed since POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co. established that the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) does not preclude Lanham Act claims targeting FDA-regulated beverages. Few scholars, however, have evaluated the [...]
Food and Drug Law Journal | Volume 75 | Number 3
A Planetary Health Approach to the Labeling of Plant-Based Meat Nicole E. Negowetti ABSTRACT In 2019, alternative proteins became mainstream. “Bleeding” plant-based burgers are now available at fast-food restaurants and grocery stores across the country, and the field of cellular agriculture—production of meat, dairy, and eggs from cells instead of livestock—is advancing rapidly. The [...]
The Indirect Regulation of Influencer Advertising Tamany Vinson Bentz & Carolina Veltri ABSTRACT As social media and influencer marketing become ever more ubiquitous, laws and regulators struggle to keep up. This Article analyzes how regulatory authorities try to enforce existing regulations by focusing their efforts on holding marketers, rather than individual influencers, accountable for [...]
Food and Drug Law Journal | Volume 75 | Number 2
Strengthening the Information Quality Act to Improve Federally Disseminated Public Health Information Daren Bakst ABSTRACT Information that can undermine public health can be widely disseminated. But what should be done when the federal government is the source disseminating this misinformation? The Information Quality Act (IQA), enacted in 2000, makes it possible for the public [...]
The Information Quality Act: Is There a There, There? James T. O'Reilly ABSTRACT The famous novelist Gertrude Stein once insulted Oakland, California, with the aphorism that "There is no there, there!" In the same vein, as a longtime teacher and student of administrative processes in the federal government, I was asked to assess the [...]
Food and Drug Law Journal | Volume 75 | Number 2
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