For years, health advocates have urged a move away from meat-based proteins to plant-based alternatives.

October 1, 2024, was the implementation date for the FDA's new Human Foods Program. A full three years in the making, its goal is to "notably enhance the agency's ability to oversee and protect the human food.

Do you have a regulation that you think should be changed or rescinded? Well, now is your chance to formally make that request.

The growth of AI depends on many factors, and a foundational factor is access to datasets to train LLMs for learning patterns and being able to ‘connect the dots'.

Back in 2022, the Senate requested the U.S. Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conduct a joint study to determine...

One of the most valuable things a business owns is its name.

The SCOTUS has issued a number of recent decisions attempting to clarify the law in the area of personal jurisdiction. It has not, however, been asked to squarely answer the question of whether...

The Seventh Circuit has been offered a chance to weigh in on whether a recent amendment to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act should apply retroactively.

On May 17, Colorado's governor signed the groundbreaking Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence Act. The Act regulates "high-risk AI systems"...

Some of the basic components of AI - algorithms, data, analytics and machine learning - have been around in the workplace for a long time.

I've posted a lot about alternative protein sources. Everywhere I look in the food and beverage literature, I see another article touting the virtues of plant-based meats...

Last week's activity in Congress to adopt spending packages for the remainder of 2024 included the extension of the Price-Anderson Act to Dec. 31 2061.

My Partner Paul Benson recently posted about the "yuck factor" inhibiting any serious movement toward insect protein consumption as a replacement for traditional meat.

All federal contractors with AAP obligations under VEVRAA and who do not calculate their own benchmark must take note of the OFCCP's new 5.2%...

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, the government is just beginning to implement some parameters for the uniform acquisition and use of it.

The United Kingdom has published a 10 Year Health Plan that pledges to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children under 16.

On September 9, 2025, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released its comprehensive strategy aimed at reversing the rise of childhood chronic diseases in the U.S.

To date, most efforts to challenge what LLMs like GPT-5, Claude, Llama, Grok, and Gemini, among others, are doing with copyrighted materials have focused on inputs used to train these models.

The California Privacy Protection Agency recently approved new regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act that introduce significant requirements for businesses regarding automated decision-making technology, risk assessments, and cybersecurity audits.

Yesterday, President Trump said he didn't like the term "artificial" in "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) because AI is "not artificial, it's genius." Many food companies don't like the word...