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The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School (CHLPI) partnered with a team from Manatt to file an amicus brief on February 25 in a case […]
In a time of elevated food prices, more U.S. consumers are discarding edible food prematurely due to misperceptions of food date labels. Thursday, February 27, 2025 – U.S. consumers report […]
BY Shalene Gupta. Originally published in Fast Company on February 24, 2025. Elizabeth Kaplan is quoted in this article. One of the most effective factors in containing the spread of HIV […]
By Emily Seeley. Originally published in Food Tank. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a joint Request for Information (RFI) to […]
By Isabel Ruehl. Originally published in MIT Technology Review on February 21, 2025. Carmel Shachar is quoted in this article. Maggie Barnidge, 18, has been managing cystic fibrosis her whole life. […]
By Arlene Karidis, Freelance writer. Originally published in Waste360 on February 18, 2025 About $1 trillion per year worth of food is either wasted at the retail or consumer level or […]
By Sarah Todd and Lizzy Lawrence. Originally published in Stat News on Feb. 19, 2025. Emily Broad Leib is quoted in this article. A lot of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas about health […]
Medicaid access, both pre- and post-release, is a promising path to ensuring that reentry is a genuine, lasting return to freedom. By Johnathon Card & Spencer Andrews. Originally published in Inquest on February […]
In the span of less than one month the Trump Administration has signed multiple executive orders, some which seek to directly undercut and dismantle efforts to address health inequity and […]
Pioneers in the Fight Against Food Waste Evaluates Promising Waste Deterrence Policies in South Korea, France, and Peru For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 12, 2025 – The Harvard Law School Food Law […]
Carmel Shachar ’10 discusses the rapidly evolving legal issues around telehealth care delivered across state lines By Elaine McArdle. Originally published in Harvard Law Today on Feb. 5, 2025. ast November, […]
Food Law & Policy, Commentary
FLPC Calls for Federal Food Date Label Standardization to Combat Waste
March 5, 2025
The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) has submitted comments to USDA FSIS and FDA, urging federal standardization of food date labels to reduce food waste, improve […]