Months after our lawsuit, HHS proposed to withdraw or repeal the disastrous Trump-Era Sunset Rule, which threatened to eliminate thousands of health and food safety regulations.
Anyone who wants to keep Salmonella or E. coli off their dinner plates should be thrilled that today the Biden administration pounded the final nail in the coffin of the Trump-era scheme to “sunset” some 18,000 consumer protections.
Federal court concluded FDA could permit manufacturers to self-certify that chemical additives used in food they manufactured are safe, but acknowledged conflict-of-interest concerns about this practice and noted that the remedy to fix this situation lies with Congress.
