Our food lawyers advise clients on all aspects of food and beverage law. Our clients in this area include fast moving consumer goods companies with leading brands in the food, drinks and health industries including Campbell/Arnott’s, Cadbury-Schweppes, Lion Nathan, Nestlé Australia, nudie, Woolworths, Wyeth and Stolichnaya.
Our food law team have extensive expertise advising on:
- advertising and marketing claims for food and beverages such as use of the terms “GMO-free”, “healthy”, “organic”, “light/low”, “natural”, “pure”, “source of” and “real”
- advertising food to children and other special categories of consumers
- alcoholic beverages law/code compliance including beer, liquor and wine
- branding, trade mark protection and enforcement
- compliance with Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code and related food and health legislation and standards
- comparative advertising
- country of origin labelling for imported and domestic food (packaged and fresh)
- ingredients listing and claims
- liaising with Food Standards Australia New Zealand and State food and health regulators
- nutrition, health and related claims for food and beverages including health maintenance and health promotion claims under the proposed Food Standards Australia New Zealand regime
- packaging and labelling laws
- product development and innovation
- passing off, trade practices and consumer law
- pet food and veterinary laws
- product/food recalls and compliance programs, product liability including contamination
- sale, display and handling of fresh food in the food manufacturing and supply chain including retailers and other food outlets
- submissions to food and health regulators
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