Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation

Goodwin’s work in the food and beverage industry involves regulatory counseling, litigation avoidance and litigation work for leading food, supplement and healthy living companies. We advise clients on a diverse range of products and services, including with respect to product research and development, vendor and other commercial relationships, product labelling, marketing and claims substantiation, product formulation, food ingredients and additives, appropriate regulatory pathways for consumable products, product liability and litigation risk, and legal implications associated with the use of novel technologies in the healthy living space. We focus on the healthy living sector, including novel ingredients and products, functional foods, dietary supplements and bioactive ingredients.

Goodwin’s Food + Healthy Living practice has the market’s leading reputation for providing strategic regulatory advice on emerging technologies in the food industry. As the science of food technology evolves, we are recognized for our particularly deep regulatory expertise in key novel and emerging technologies such as:

·      Nutraceuticals/supplements;

·      Novel ingredients, including in patented probiotic, protein and enzyme products;

·      Antimicrobial “smart” packaging;

·      Functional foods (e.g., to help with immune support or to prevent certain birth defects);

·      Genetic engineering; and

·      Nanotechnology.