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Brian Sylvester

Toronto
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FDA Weighs Competing Definitions for Ultra-Processed Foods

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By Brian Sylvester
| Morrison Foerster
Keep up with the latest legal and industry insights, news, and events from MoFo Brian Sylvester spoke with Food Navigator about the FDA and USDA’s effort to establish a federal definition for ultra-processed foods (UPFs), explaining that the debate centers on competing frameworks based on processing, ingredients, nutrition, or a combination of the three.
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Plant Gene-Editing Regulation Roundup (July 2026)

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By Michael Ward Ph.D, Brian Sylvester, Wolfgang Schönig
| Morrison Foerster
In this Roundup, the MoFo Food & Ag team aims to help our clients proactively track plant gene-editing regulation to inform business strategy. This edition provides updates on the continued streamlining of approval for modern gene-edited crops. Argentina, one of the world’s leaders in growing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and gene-edited crops, is streamlining its approval process.
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Key Food Regulatory + Litigation Developments

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By Brian Sylvester, Claudia Vetesi, Lindy Pittman
| Morrison Foerster
Summer 2026 has seen a steady stream of significant food regulatory developments across FDA, state legislatures, and the courts. Most notably, FDA has delayed its proposed mandatory GRAS notification rule until December 2026, while the Trump administration appears poised to introduce its anticipated federal definition of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) as a research tool rather than through formal rulemaking.
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