date:Apr 27, 2013
The Center for Food Safety, an advocacy group, in August sued F.D.A. commissioner Margaret Hamburg after the agency failed to issue seven major regulations by the statutory deadline of July 2012. The F.D.A. had argued that rules of such magnitude and complexity require time and care to develop.
In an April 22 decision, U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the Northern District of California said the agency should work with the plaintiffs to establish a new timeline for the release and fin