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Mason Weeda

Mason Weeda

Managing Principal at OFW Law and Chair of the firm's FDA Food Practice, a Washington, DC-based FDA regulatory and compliance attorney.

Sep 8, 2026

18:18
Mason, what's your take on the mega issue, so to speak, the mega areas?
18:26
I mean, the mega areas, I'm not going to spend time on because I think we will.
18:30
hopefully dedicate a little bit more time to them later, but you know, grass and UPF ultra processed foods are, you know, that's on most of my clients' minds these days.
18:45
And, you know, there's some pretty significant issues with both.
18:49
Outside of that, you know, I, I agree with, with Jessica inspectors, That's a fairly big issue right now, particularly after Doge and, you know, same thing at USDA.
19:09
There's been a pretty significant loss of institutional knowledge at the agency.
19:15
And now they're passing inspectional authority contractually to states, more or less, state inspectors.
23:28
So for people who are listening, who, uh, you know, don't do this on a daily basis,

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