FSHN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Food Safety And Inspection Service, Federal Trade Commission, Meat Packing Industry

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Food Science and Human Nutrition
• Course: FSHN 101
• Professor: Bohn Dawn

Document Summary

Lecture 32, 33 and 34: food laws and regulations. Regulations: the executive branch of the federal government is responsible for enforcing the laws through regulations, regulation are created, modified, or revoked by the rule making process. Rule making process and petitions: advanced notice of proposed rulemaking. When an agency announces its intent to create a regulation. Only done in some cases: the proposed rule. Includes the draft of the regulations, reasons behind the action, and perhaps some questions the agency is seeking to answer: comment period. Comments on the proposal are required during this time. Request period is a minimum of 30 days. The agency presenting the proposed rule is required to respond to each comment filed. (cid:862)regulatio(cid:374)s(cid:863) or (cid:862)rules(cid:863) that have been promulgated as described above have the full force of the laws passed by. Guidelines are suggestions and do not have the full force of the law.