Category: Issue 352
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Shook Attorneys Featured in Feedstuffs
The industry newspaper Feedstuffs has profiled Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s Agribusiness & Food Safety Practice in a June 7, 2010, special report on supply chain management and front-of-package (FOP) labeling. Feedstuffs writer Rod Smith interviewed attorneys Mark Anstoetter, Christopher McDonald, Madeleine McDonough, and Sarah Sunday about the firm’s litigation background and “considerable expertise in areas…
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Jim Prevor, “Aggrandizing the FDA Only Distracts from Real Solutions,” The New Atlantis, May 21, 2010
The man who authors The Perishable Pundit blog warns in this article that food safety legislation currently pending in Congress that would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandatory recall authority fails to address the issues that could have a real impact on addressing the problem of food contamination. He argues that absolute food…
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Consumer Reports Claims Some Protein Drinks Laden with Lead
Consumers Union (CU) has issued the results of its investigation into protein drinks, concluding that many products are at best superfluous and at worst unsafe. Published in the July 2010 edition of Consumer Reports, the findings allegedly support the watchdog’s position that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education…
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“Big Food” Critic Skeptical of Industry Promises to Make Healthier Products
Public health attorney and author Michele Simon has authored an article that calls disingenuous at least one food company’s promise to support first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign to end childhood obesity. Simon targets PepsiCo, which has publicly supported the campaign and also makes sweetened beverages, energy drinks and salty snack foods. The company’s…
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Settlement Announced in Egg Antitrust Litigation
A plaintiffs’ firm has announced a $25 million partial settlement in an antitrust class action “brought on behalf of direct purchasers of shell eggs and egg products.” In re: Processed Eggs Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2002 (E.D. Pa.). According to Hausfeld LLP, plaintiffs alleged “a near industry-wide, price-fixing conspiracy among egg farmers which raised the price…
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Patent Marking Complaint Filed Against Kraft Foods
A Missouri resident has filed a complaint in federal court against Kraft Foods Inc., alleging that it has been marking its Kool-Aid® and Country Time Lemonade® drink mix packages with the U.S. patent numbers for container patents that expired in April 2008. Brown v. Kraft Foods Inc., No. 10-1007 (E.D. Mo., filed June 1, 2010).…
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MDL Court Limits Discovery in BPA Plastic Products Litigation
The multidistrict litigation (MDL) court before which cases alleging a failure to disclose the possible harmful effects of plastic bottles containing bisphenol A (BPA) have been consolidated for pretrial proceedings has granted in part and denied in part the plaintiffs’ discovery motion. In re: Bisphenol-A (BPA) Polycarbonate Plastic Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 1967 (W.D. Mo., order…
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Master Recommends Denying Class Certification Motion in Ground Beef E. Coli Case
A federal magistrate in New York has recommended that the district court deny the class certification motion filed by plaintiffs who allege either personal or economic injury from the purchase of frozen ground beef products purportedly tainted with E. coli. Patton v. Topps Meat Co., No. 07-654 (W.D.N.Y., recommendation entered May 27, 2010). The defendants include…