New U.S. dietary guidelines recommend children do not consume added sugar until they turn age 2 – and then it should make up no more than 10% of their daily calories. The revised guidelines did not include a recommendation that adults limit themselves to one alcoholic drink per day.
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LUBBOCK, Texas - During the Sorghum Checkoff’s annual meeting - held virtually to adhere with COVID-19 guidelines proposed by the Center for Disease Control - five board directors were reappointed or sworn in on the checkoff’s board.
After being appointed by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, these directors will serve three-year terms starting December 2020 and commencing December 2023. We welcome new and returning directors to the checkoff with open arms, said Sorghum Checkoff Executive Director Florentino Lopez. The Sorghum Checkoff board directors work to increase shared value, enhance opportunity for producer profitability and advance demand for sorghum producers.
National Pork Board In a move celebrated by the hog industry, the Trump administration proposed on Monday to put the USDA in charge of regulating genetically engineered livestock and poultry, a duty now performed by the FDA. The Biden administration would make the final decision on the transfer of power since it will take office before the end of the 60-day comment period on the proposal. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the proposal was part of a multiyear modernization of federal oversight of agricultural biotechnology that began in the Obama years. In June 2019, President Trump signed an executive order telling the FDA, USDA, and EPA, which share authority over biotechnology, to update their regulations and, referring to gene-edited crops and livestock, to use their powers “to exempt low-risk products of agricultural biotechnology from undue regulation.”
OMAHA (DTN) Just a week after the Food and Drug Administration approved genetically altered pigs for food and medical use, USDA announced Monday the department is soliciting feedback to take over authority for overseeing regulations for animals produced through genetic engineering.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) already oversees biotechnology for crops. USDA, in issuing an “advance notice of proposed rulemaking” is seeking comments on setting regulations that would give APHIS control of regulations over animals developed through genetic modification as well.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue described it as a “groundbreaking proposal” that would transfer FDA’s current animal biotechnology oversight over to USDA, “providing developers with a one-stop shop for their products at USDA,” the department stated.