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Defining Healthy Menus – What Restaurants Need to Know

Modern Restaurant Management

When it comes to the term “healthy,” which is a nutrient content claim, the FDA defined it more than 25 years ago in 1993 with a focus on total fats, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. So the FDA in 2016 began the public process of considering a new definition for “healthy.”

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Jim Jones to Serve as First FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods

Food Safety Tech

food supply in the face of climate change and globalization, as well as nutrition to help reduce diet-related diseases and improve health equity. Jones is scheduled to begin at the FDA on September 24, 2023. I’m delighted to welcome Jim to the FDA. For more than 30 years, Jones has held various positions in the U.S. food supply.

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FDA Names Jim Jones as First Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods

Food Quality & Safety

On August 23, James “Jim” Jones was named as FDA’s first-ever deputy commissioner of the Human Foods Program, effective September 24, 2023. Califf, MD, FDA commissioner, and exercise decision-making authority over all the program’s entities. In this role, Jones will report directly to Robert M. food supply.

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New FDA administrator says he is ready to cooperate to restructure the agency

Food Safety News

FDA Commissioner Robert Calif appointed Jones after the agency’s embarrassing turmoil over the lack of a clear chain of command on the food side of its responsibilities. Congressional hearings regarding the infant formula crisis revealed the internal failures at the FDA regarding food safety and a tangled chain of command system.

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FDA reorganization is out for review, but impact later in 2024 could be huge

Food Safety News

The proposed changes and updates to an FDA-wide reorganization plan have been out for external reviews and clearances since Dec. FDA will manage public health risks through three areas of focus: • nutrition, microbiological food safety, and chemical safety. 13, 2023, and implementation should occur sometime during 2024.

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FDA Commissioner names EPA insider to agency’s top food safety post

Food Safety News

EPA’s James “Jim” Jones was named Wednesday as the first FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, who came on board in February 2022, had little choice but to work on a reorganization plan. Jones is scheduled to begin at the FDA on Sept. I’m delighted to welcome Jim to the FDA.

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Unifying Human Food Regulation: A Conversation with Jim Jones

Food Safety Tech

In September, Jim Jones, former EPA employee and member of the Reagan-Udall Expert Panel for Foods, became the first FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods. Jones : People often want to know why I came to the FDA. I also came to the FDA because I believe in Commissioner Califf’s proposal for a unified Human Foods Program.