If you don’t subscribe to the latest news from the TTB I highly recommend it (click here to sign up), every couple of weeks you’ll get an email notice around the area your are interested it (wine, beer, spirits). This week’s was fun (if you are a compliance nerd like me). Learn How to Proof …
Great post over at WineAmerica detailing the new FDA regulations, specifically highlight that most of the new food safety rules will not apply to wineries. This is a big relief and helps with the regulatory uncertainty that comes from this type of legislation. We’ve been keeping our eye on this issue for a while now (see our …
Often it is easy to see the bureaucratic mess of working with a particular agency, whether it the DMV or the TTB without understanding the good they do in protecting the public interest. Well, today the TTB gave us a clear example of them earning their pay. A few weeks back I read about an incident in Czechoslovakia where …
Interesting article in Wine Spectator describing the growing presensce of the FDA at wineries. Per the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) the FDA needs to perform the first audit of a winery within the first 7 years of existence and then every 5 years after that. This, of course, is a fairly new practice …