Focaccia Focaccia Focaccia () is a flat oven-baked Italian bread product similar in style and texture to pizza doughs. Focaccia can be used as a side to many meals or as sandwich bread. "Focaccia al rosmarino" (focaccia with rosemary) is a common focaccia style in Italian cuisine that may be served as an antipasto, appetizer, table bread, or snack. Focaccia is similar to the Greek flatbread Lagana. In Ancient Rome, "panis focacius" was a flat bread baked on the hearth. The word is derived from the Latin "focus" meaning "hearth, place for baking." The basic recipe is thought by some to
Regulation of food and dietary supplements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "drug" under the act includes a section defining drugs as "articles ("other than food") intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals". Thus, the definition of food is important not only in determining what is covered by the regulatory regime for food, but in determining what is "excluded" from the regulatory regime for drugs. For example, in the 1983 case of "Nutrilab, Inc. v. Schweiker", the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found that starch blockers, though derived from kidney beans, were drugs rather than food under the meaning