Our Food Litigation Blog shares timely insights into litigation developments, emerging arguments and challenges facing food and beverage manufacturers and related industries. Perkins Coie's lawyers counsel on the front line of controversial and complex cases, including food labeling class actions, genetically modified organisms matters (GMO), false advertising, and several "natural" claim lawsuits.
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PC Food Litigation Index: May 2018
USA - June 7 2018 Each month we will be sharing the PC Food Litigation Index, a summary of latest class action filings in the food and beverage industry. This data is…
Notable Ruling: Supply Chain Opinion for Mars
USA - June 5 2018 On Monday, June 4, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important opinion, Hodson v. Mars, Inc., holding that food manufacturers do not…
Industry Insight: FDA Extends Deadline for Eliminating PHOs
USA - May 25 2018 The U.S. Food & Drug Administration determined in 2015 that Partially Hydrogenated Oils (“PHOs”) are not “Generally Recognized as Safe,” or GRAS. PHOs…
Notable Ruling: Another Motion to Dismiss for Diet Soda
USA - May 18 2018 Just two and a half months after the Northern District of California ruled that a reasonable consumer would not be misled to believe “Diet Coke” aids…
PC Food Litigation Index: April 2018
USA - May 10 2018 Each month we will be sharing the PC Food Litigation Index, a summary of latest class action filings in the food and beverage industry. This data is…
Industry Insights: GMO Labeling Update
USA - May 7 2018 The USDA and the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) have set forth the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (“the Rule”) for labeling…
PC Food Litigation Index: March 2018
USA - April 3 2018 Each month we will be sharing the PC Food Litigation Index, a summary of latest class action filings in the food and beverage industry. This data is…
Industry Insights: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Provides Comments on “Natural”
USA - March 29 2018 In a speech at the National Food Policy Conference today, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb suggested that long-awaited guidance on the food and…
PC Food Litigation Index: February 2018
USA - March 7 2018 Each month we will be sharing the PC Food Litigation Index, a summary of latest class action filings in the food and beverage industry. This data is…
New Human Rights Case Alleging Deception of Consumers Filed Against Food Companies (This Time on the East Coast)
USA - March 6 2018 In the wake of the 2016 dismissal of human rights cases filed against food companies in California, a new class action case was filed on February 26…
