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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The latest developments in food regulation in Australia and internationally, for the month of August 2025.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved amendments arising from two new proposals (P1049 and P1059) regarding sugar claims and energy information on alcoholic beverages. Apart from the importance of these changes, this article also elaborates, with commentary, on other efforts that have sought to reduce the promotion of alcohol leading to excessive consumption. These include the impact of mandatory pregnancy warning labels and other words to be used under the ABAC Code.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand has introduced new definitions and standards for genetically modified foods through Proposal P1055. This article covers the proposal and the new definitions, considers other definitions in Australian gene technology legislation and outlines new requirements for food businesses. Importantly, the changes move some previous GM and labelling exemptions and alter where they will and will not apply.
The ACCC has initiated three major enforcement proceedings as part of its ongoing enforcement of misleading ‘greenwashing’ claims. This article provides the latest learnings from the cases against Clorox, Australian Gas Networks and Banana Boat. There are significant legal risks that must be considered.
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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.
