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Food & Consumer Packaged Goods Litigation shares timely insights into litigation developments, emerging arguments and challenges facing food and consumer packaged goods manufacturers and related industries. 

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September 11, 2018

PC Food Litigation Index: August 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 compiled by Perkins Coie based on a review of dockets from courts nationwide. August 2018 continued this year's trend of higher monthly filings than in 2017. False advertising, slack-fill and health maintenance claims were filed this month. View blog post
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August 2, 2018

PC Food Litigation Index: July 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 compiled by Perkins Coie based on a review of dockets from courts nationwide. Food litigation filings in July were in line with the year's overall trend, pacing slightly ahead of 2017 numbers. View blog post
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July 23, 2018

Notable Ruling: Precedent-Setting Proposition 65 Pre-emption Decision Involving Breakfast Cereal

Last week, the California Court of Appeal held that a plaintiff's suit seeking to require Proposition 65 acrylamide based cancer warnings on 59 popular breakfast cereals was pre-empted by federal nutrition policies aimed at encouraging Americans to consume more whole grains and by FDA letters stating that any warnings should be deferred given the uncertain science on the risks to huma

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July 10, 2018

PC Food Litigation Index: June 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 compiled by Perkins Coie based on a review of dockets from courts nationwide. Consumers continued to challenge the "all natural" labels on products that contain the popular ingredient xanthan gum, used as a stabilizer and emulsifier in View blog post
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June 7, 2018

PC Food Litigation Index: May 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 compiled by Perkins Coie based on a review of dockets from courts nationwide. Through May the pace of consumer class action filings against food companies continued unabated, tracking last years filing rate leading to nearly 150 new ca View blog post
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June 5, 2018

Notable Ruling: Supply Chain Opinion for Mars

On Monday, June 4, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important opinion, Hodson v. View blog post
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May 25, 2018

Industry Insights: FDA Extends Deadline for Eliminating PHOs

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration determined in 2015 that Partially Hydrogenated Oils (PHOs) are not "Generally Recognized as Safe," or GRAS. PHOs are the leading source of trans fats in the human diet. In the nutrition industry, much is disputed, but the unhealthy nature of trans fats, a form of unsaturated fat, is not. View blog post
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May 18, 2018

Notable Ruling: Another Motion to Dismiss for Diet Soda

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 in weight loss, a similar suit against Pepsi-Cola for its Diet Pepsi product has been dis View blog post
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May 10, 2018

Industry Insights: The Ongoing Circuit Split Over Ascertainability

Over the past several years, there has been a deepening circuit split over a key issue in class action litigation: whether a class must be "ascertainable" before it can be certified. View blog post
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May 10, 2018

PC Food Litigation Index: April 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 compiled by Perkins Coie based on a review of dockets from courts nationwide. In April, "natural" and its opposite, "artificial," continued to be legally-contested territory in the food world. View blog post
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May 7, 2018

Industry Insights: GMO Labeling Update

The USDA and the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) have set forth the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard ("the Rule") for labeling food products that have been genetically modified. The Rule requires food companies to disclose information about bioengineered food and food ingredient content by labeling such food as "BE" (bioengineered). View blog post
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April 26, 2018

Industry Insights: Doing Business in the Cannabis Industry

The cannabis industry is growing rapidly (by one estimate, the market for recreational cannabis was $9.2 billion in 2017, and is expected to grow as large as $47.3 billion by 2027). Many companies are seriously assessing the potential profit of indirect involvement in the industry by providing services to or investing in businesses that distribute, market, or otherwise sell cannabis. View blog post
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April 3, 2018

PC Food Litigation Index: March 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 compiled by Perkins Coie based on a review of dockets from courts nationwide. In March, plaintiffs challenged a variety of food labeling and marketing claims, with most filings falling into the general false fact category. View blog post
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March 29, 2018

Industry Insights: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Provides Comments on "Natural"

In a speech at the National Food Policy Conference today, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb suggested that long-awaited guidance on the food and beverage industry's marketing use of the term "natural" may be on the horizon. Gottlieb's speech noted the more than 7,600 comments that landed at the FDA following its 2015 request for feedback on the "natural" label. View blog post
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March 7, 2018

Industry Insights: When will the FDA define ‘natural’? Sooner than you might think…

In November 2015, the FDA announced that it was opening regulatory proceedings to define the term "natural" for food and beverage labeling. View blog post
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