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 updates in Australia and internationally for the month of November 2024.
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This article by the author also appears in the November 2024 edition of Australian Hotelier Magazine and considers the impacts for the hospitality industry of new bans on various plastic products. Most Australian States and Territories have introduced bans on many single-use plastic items, in line with the Australian Packaging Covenant’s 2025 target to “phase out problematic and unnecessary single-use plastics packaging”. Although this target has been endorsed by the Federal Labor Government, the approach is not uniform across all Australian jurisdictions. Some States and Territories have adopted their own legislation with differences on items and timelines for implementation.
Manufacturers and importers of infant formula products are already strictly regulated and restricted in marketing and advertising content and formats for infant formula products for 0-12 month infants. Changes are being prepared by the Australian Government. This article explores the intent of the current MAIF Agreement and parts of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code that contain the existing and setting out a proposed regulatory update that will have implications infant formula marketing and advertising by suppliers and retailers.
The Australian government oversees agricultural produce and food products for export on the basis that it generally protects Australia’s reputation for important food commodities and products, as well as meeting product certification requirements set by foreign government regulators to shortcut the process where bilateral arrangements exist between Australia and those countries. The requirements of destination markets outside Australia are increasingly complex. This article analyses proposals discussed by the Australian Department of Agriculture for reforming these export control processes. The likely changes will increase costs for Australian exporters, as well as having other impacts as outlined in this article.
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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.
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