Food and Ag Issues UpdateBy Lynne R. OstfeldAgricultural Law, January 2024Summaries of the food law presentations delivered by attorneys at the Congress of the Union International des Avocats in Rome.
Food and Our Laboratories of DemocracyBy A. Bryan Endres & Jessica L. GuarinoCorporate Law Departments, January 2024One of the more recent state food regulatory developments is California Assembly Bill 418. Effective January 1, 2027, California will prohibit individuals or entities from engaging in the manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale of a food product for human consumption in commerce if it contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3 (erythrosine).
Food and Ag Issues UpdateBy Lynne R. OstfeldFood Law, December 2023Summaries of the food law presentations delivered by attorneys at the Congress of the Union International des Avocats in Rome.
Food and Our Laboratories of DemocracyBy A. Bryan Endres & Jessica L. GuarinoFood Law, December 2023One of the more recent state food regulatory developments is California Assembly Bill 418. Effective January 1, 2027, California will prohibit individuals or entities from engaging in the manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale of a food product for human consumption in commerce if it contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3 (erythrosine).
Growing Tomatoes With Less WaterBy Lynne OstfeldFood Law, December 2023A summary of a recent Wall Street Journal article about treating the difficulty of growing tomatoes with an increasing lack of available water supply.
Book to Read: ‘The Farmer’s Lawyer’By Angela PetersFood Law, November 2023North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture Sarah Vogel wrote a captivating narration of her experience as a young lawyer taking on a national class action lawsuit in her fight for family farmers’ rights in The Farmer's Lawyer.
Meet the National Agricultural Law CenterBy Angela PetersFood Law, November 2023The National Agricultural Law Center is a unit of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture that serves as the nation’s leading source of objective, scholarly, and authoritative agricultural and food law research and information.
Meet FarmSTANDBy Angela PetersFood Law, October 2023FarmSTAND is the only advocacy organization in the country solely focused on transforming the system of industrial animal agriculture as a whole.
Please Meet the ISBA’s Food Law Section Council Member Elaine Vorberg of McCarthy Duffy LLPBy Angela PetersFood Law, October 2023McCarthy Duffy LLP’s Food and Beverage Industry Practice provides day-to-day legal support and complex transaction management for numerous high-growth food and beverage companies, from the founding stage through private equity and venture capital investment to acquisition.
COP27: Mitigating Climate Change and Navigating the Legal Risk of GreenwashingBy Jan Henning Buschfeld, Rachel Duffy, Simon Duncombe, Jennifer King, Felix Roscam Abbing, Elvira Sihvola, Rachel Stephens, Lukas Pfister, & Stefanie FayIntellectual Property, September 2023Businesses are under increasing pressure to disclose the actions they are taking to be more sustainable, however, there are associated regulatory and legal risks where a business might give a false impression or be accused of providing misleading information.
An Interview With Clever CarnivoreBy Elaine VorbergFood Law, September 2023A Q-&-A with two employees of Clever Carnivor, a Chicago based start-up innovating around problems in industrial farming with cultivated meat production on a mission to make Illinois the hub of this promising industry.
Meet Total Food ServiceBy Angela PetersFood Law, August 2023For over 30 years, Total Food Service has been a forum for passionate science of food professionals and technologists to collaborate, learn, and contribute, all with the goal of inspiring and transforming collective scientific knowledge into innovative solutions for the benefit of all people around the world.
Have You Heard About the SEAfood ACT?By Angela PetersFood Law, June 2023The Science-based Equitable Aquaculture Food Act, known as the SEAfood Act, will help the U.S. chart a responsible path forward for U.S. seafood farming.
Farm and Food Law: Is Climate Change Calling for a New National Perspective?By Claire A. ManningFood Law, March 2023One highlight for the Illinois Food Law Section Council was jointly sponsoring a CLE with the University of Illinois’ College of Agriculture and Consumer Economics and the University of Illinois College of Law.
