Food & Beverage

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Latest News in Food & Beverage

  • July 24, 2026

    Abbott Beats 'Supersized' Investor Suit Over Formula Recall

    An Illinois federal judge tossed a proposed securities class action accusing Abbott Laboratories of misleading shareholders about its safety practices ahead of the 2022 recall at its Sturgis, Michigan, infant formula plant, saying Friday that "despite its girth," the "supersized" complaint says "too much and too little," and still needs more information to be viable.

  • July 24, 2026

    LA Cold Storage Warehouse Fire Sparks Negligence Suit

    Owners and lessees of the large cold-storage warehouse with a flammable, anhydrous ammonia refrigeration system that caught fire last month in Boyle Heights were hit with a proposed negligence class action Friday in California state court by a plaintiff who lives about a mile and a half from the facility.

  • July 24, 2026

    Abbott Wins 7th Circ. Fight Over Baby Formula Warning

    The Seventh Circuit on Friday refused to revive a woman's claims that Abbott Laboratories failed to warn about the dangers of a Similac-brand infant formula her baby drank before dying of a serious gastrointestinal disease, saying she failed to show that her suggested alternative warning would have saved her baby.

  • July 24, 2026

    AI-Hallucinated Citations Result In $3K Sanction For Lawyer

    A Washington federal judge on Friday sanctioned a plaintiff's attorney $3,000 after finding that she submitted multiple court filings containing dozens of fake citations and quotations generated by artificial intelligence platforms  and didn't fix the mistakes, calling the conduct "tantamount to bad faith."

  • July 24, 2026

    FDA, CDC Broaden Cyclospora Outbreak To 9 States

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that the investigation into the ongoing cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce has now expanded into four more states, bringing the total to nine.

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Food & Beverage

Areas of Coverage

  • AGENCIES
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  • Farm Service Agency
  • Food and Nutrition Service
  • Food Safety and Inspection Service
  • Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration
  • U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • State and international food and beverage regulators
  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • Food safety regulation
  • Labeling requirements
  • Food import bans and trade restrictions
  • Antitrust and consumer protection controls
  • ENFORCEMENT
  • Food and beverage recalls
  • Food safety actions
  • Merger reviews
  • LITIGATION
  • Mass torts
  • Food safety suits
  • Labor and employment issues
  • International trade disputes
  • Agricultural commodities trading suits
  • Antitrust disputes
  • Breach of contract suits
  • Insurance coverage disputes
  • Environmental issues
  • Bankruptcy proceedings
  • TRANSACTIONS
  • Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
  • Share buybacks and stock splits
  • Franchise agreements and real estate deals
  • PROFILES
  • Personnel moves
  • Profiles of food and beverage practices

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  • Executives and attorneys in the food and beverage industries
  • Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
  • Policymakers at federal and state agencies
  • Judges and court staff across the U.S.
  • Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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