Call me crazy, but I’ve never been confused into thinking that peanut butter, cashew butter, almond butter, or even an olive-oil spread called “butter” was the same thing as dairy butter. Nor have I ever met another person who has confused a vegan butter product with real butter. Yet, there...
About three decades ago, I was one of the food-and-drug attorneys involved in defending various persons and companies who for some time had been distributing an amino acid called GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), which although sold as a dietary supplement, had three remarkable characteristics: It helped users quickly fall asleep; It...
I had a client once who resided in Central California and I represented them on a number of litigation matters. They were, shall we say, in the gunsights of the local deputy district attorney because of their outspoken views on County and State government and the clients’ generally contentious nature.
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” —Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s Soviet Security Chief It is no State secret that government legislators and bureaucrats churn out a multitude of laws, statutes, codes, rules, and regulations year after year without any letup. After all, they must justify their...
Even well into this year, the COVID-19 pandemic has created and keeps creating scheduling and rescheduling challenges for the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The first cancellations were made earlier in 2020 for two meetings in China: the Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) and the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR),...
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