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FDA's Proposal to Regulate Nicotine Levels

June 25, 2018

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration recently published an “Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Combusted Cigarettes1" to invite comments and submissions of information for it to consider as it plans to develop a maximum nicotine level for cigarettes. The agency hopes to establish a standard for nicotine levels in cigarettes so that they do not initiate or perpetuate addiction to cigarettes for some portion of potential smokers.

FDA’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Combusted Cigarettes

June 12, 2018

FDA’s plan to restrict nicotine to very low levels in combusted cigarettes in order to reduce smokers’ addiction to cigarettes is a novel and creative approach

FSIS's Egg Products Inspection Regulations

June 12, 2018

The Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to require official plants that process egg products to develop and implement Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (Sanitation SOPs).

U.S. and Canada Sign Agreement on Regulatory Cooperation

June 6, 2018

A Taxonomy of Regulatory Forms

May 30, 2018

There is a lot of interest in understanding what effects regulations have on economic growth and other macroeconomic measures, but measuring those impacts is challenging, in part because regulatory metrics themselves are rather blunt. Pages or even words in regulatory code may not tell the whole story. Intuitively, the form a regulation takes is relevant for predicting its impacts.

EPA’s Proposed Rule Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science

May 18, 2018

In this proposal, EPA aims to strengthen the transparency of the science it considers “pivotal” to its significant regulatory actions.

Spring Unified Agenda Sustains Deregulatory Focus

May 10, 2018

Targeting regulations that limit competition

GDPR: Does it matter on this side of the Atlantic?

May 7, 2018

GDPR: Does it matter on this side of the Atlantic?

Better Data Collection Would Improve Analysis of NEPA Regulations

April 29, 2018

Better data collection and reporting are key to analyzing how NEPA implementation has evolved and investigating whether the Act is achieving its goals.

Regulating Within a Budget

April 23, 2018

The Trump Administration’s regulatory budget constraint may help improve agency benefit-cost analyses.