FoodLegal
Experts in Food Law
FoodLegal can alleviate areas of stress for our clients, help manage pain-points, relieve bottlenecks in supply chains, manage risks, and streamline processes to get more products more quickly to customers.
Our consulting services, compliance risk mitigation support tools and training courses have been adapted to meet the changing market conditions and provide flexibility in meeting increased product demand.
Australia's premier periodical in food law and policy issues. It focuses specifically on analysis and commentary for regulatory compliance and the legal issues affecting food and food industry participants
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A summary of regulatory developments and updates for the month of March 2025.
New requirements for the recall process for therapeutic goods took effect on 5 March 2025. Aimed at ‘sponsors’, this article explains the definition of a sponsor, the key steps and responsibilities businesses need to be aware of under the new process and the important differences from the previous process.
The Federal Court of Australia has recently held that a private label product infringed the copyright of a competitor product due to similarities of the design. This article explores this December 2024 decision by the honourable Justice Moshinsky in the Federal Court decision of Hampden Holdings I.P Pty Ltd v Aldi Foods Pty Ltd (2024). The court case has wide implications for many food businesses and private label retailers.
Both the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and the Therapeutic Goods Administration have issued separate decisions which have significant potential ramifications on the use of green tea extracts in food. This article addresses these decisions and the important issues they raise for food businesses in assessing whether their green tea extract products or ingredients are still to be permitted for use.
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FoodLegal specialises in food law consultancy, compliance risk management, certification of product compliance integrity for food and beverage products and other allied products
We advise Australia's largest food companies, international brands, as well as small-to-medium sized enterprises and startups.
Our team of lawyers and consultants represent food manufacturers, importers, distributors, brand marketers, retailers, industry associations and groups.
We also work with clients from allied fields such as complementary medicines, life sciences, agribusiness and farmer-producers.
FoodLegal recognised by Australasian Lawyer as the Top Boutique Firm for 2024 in FMCG Law
Give your team a mastery of food compliance and risk management. Streamline your development and compliance processes with our legal and scientific hands-on experience. Dynamic, easy-to-understand legal commentary. All the benefits of having FoodLegal lawyers in-house.
At FoodLegal we believe that education is crucial to keeping your competitive edge.
