Category: Issue 597

  • FDA Issues Acrylamide Guidance

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued guidance titled “Acrylamide in Foods” that finalizes a November 2013 draft on the topic. The document provides information about reducing acrylamide in potato-based, cereal-based and other foods as well as information to provide consumers on cooking packaged frozen french fries. See Federal Register, March 11, 2016.  …

  • Cruz-Alvarez and Canfield Contemplate Class Actions Post-Scalia

    In an article for the Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Pulse, Shook Partner Frank Cruz-Alvarez and Associate Rachel Canfield discuss the future of class actions in light of the passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. “In the specific area of class-action litigation, Justice Scalia repeatedly thwarted the plaintiffs’ bar’s efforts to encourage liberal interpretation…