Key Federal Actions Affecting Foodservice Distributors
This rule, which has a compliance date of January 20, 2026, places new record-keeping requirements on businesses that manufacture, process, pack, or hold high-risk foods.
What is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's food traceability rule?
Taking this action, which is generally available for 30 or 60 days, allows the public to provide feedback to federal agencies about proposed regulations.
What is submitting public comments?
This tool, which allows you to quickly voice your opinion with a congressional office about an issue important to our industry, can be found on IFDA's website.
What are grassroots letters?
This statute, referred to as the NLRA, is intended to provide stability in the relationship between labor and management.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
This rule, set to take effect on January 1, 2024, requires employers with 100 or more employees to electronically submit forms to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration once a year that contain specific information about their employees.
What is OSHA's injury and illness reporting rule?
Daily Double: This tactic, carried out by sending letters and holding hearings about federal regulations, is used by congressional committees to push back on regulations that may be overreaching or burdensome to business.
What is congressional oversight?
This event, which IFDA hosts in our nation's capital every other year, features prominent speakers and provides opportunities for you to meet with your members of Congress and their staff to educate them about our industry.
What is IFDA's Washington Insight Conference?
Federal agencies publish this, also known as an NPRM, in the Federal Register when they take a regulatory action that requires public comment.
What is a notice of proposed rulemaking?
This transportation program, modeled after IFDA-led legislation, enables younger professional truck drivers to receive robust training and complete performance benchmarks in order to operate in interstate commerce.
What is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot Program, or DRIVE Safe Pilot?
The regulated community can take this action when they believe an agency's final rule exceeds its statutory authority or violates administrative procedures, among other possibilities.
What is litigating a rulemaking?
This interaction with a member of Congress, which IFDA can help organize, allows the member to learn about your business first-hand.
What is a facility tour?
Daily Double: The federal government releases this twice a year to inform the public about agencies' regulatory plans.
What is the Unified Regulatory Agenda?
Daily Double: For this labor rule, which could expose employers that contract certain services to expanded liability, IFDA hosted a webinar and has a forthcoming paper to help foodservice distributors prepare.
What is the National Labor Relations Board's joint employer rule?
This type of report can be mandated in law, or requested by a Chair or Ranking Member of a congressional committee, to help Congress make effective policy, funding, and oversight decisions.
What is a Government Accountability Office, or GAO, report?
Daily Double: A contribution from this fund helps foodservice distributors support key pro-business candidates for federal office who support our industry.
What is IFDA's Political Action Committee, or IFDAPAC?
The law that gives Congress the ability to attempt to override federal agency regulations.
What is the Congressional Review Act?
This labor rule that affects employees' wages and hours, and was last updated in 2019 by the Trump Administration, is being revised again by the Biden Administration.
What is the U.S. Department of Labor's overtime rule?
This step is available twice in the rulemaking process--once before a rule is proposed and once before it is finalized--to educate the White House office that clears federal regulations before they can be issued.
What is meeting with the Office of Management and Budget?
Some senators host these weekly in D.C. to meet with constituents. Examples include: Tennessee Tuesday, Hoosier Huddle, and Java with James.
What are constituent coffees?
This law, also known as the APA, governs the entire regulatory process.
What is the Administrative Procedure Act?