Arnstein & Lehr Announces Food, Beverage & Nutrition Law Blog
The Nutritional and Dietary Supplement Law Blog has gotten a makeover and broadened its focus to become the Food, Beverage & Nutrition Law Blog!
The FBN Blog is sponsored by my firm, Arnstein & Lehr, LLP. This change will bring in fresh perspectives from members of the new Food, Beverage & Nutrition Law Practice Group and provide our readers with great information they can use in their business beyond just dietary supplements.
In the coming weeks and months you will be introduced to my partners and associates who represent a range of manufacturers, distributors and sellers of food, beverage and nutritional products. In the process, the blog will expand its focus to address the challenges food, beverage and nutrition industry companies face in the areas we practice in including:
- Labor and Employment
- Intellectual Property
- Corporate Finance, Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions
- Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights
- Regulatory and Governmental Affairs
We hope you like the new look. We expect you will enjoy reading what our blog offers in future and that you continue to find the information and viewpoints here valuable to your business. Thank you for your support now and in the future!
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Looking forward to frequent entries on this increasingly complex topic. Two questions/comments:
Because of the successful class-action suit against Dannon/Activia yogurt, there are rumors of many new filings against functional food and dietary supplement companies. Can you write about this topic? Will the recent Walmart ruling make it more difficult to qualify a class?
Traditionally, products in the medical foods category were complete meal replacements and dominated by Ross, Nestle and a few other large companies. Within recent years, a number of companies have launched capsule or tablet products that are in every way akin to dietary supplements, yet the companies describe them as medical foods. The products are sold through physicians’ practices, and make label health claims far stronger than the Structure:Function claims allowed for supplements. Can you comment on this growing market? I am perturbed by physicians profiting from selling supplements that they are “prescribing” through their own facilities. I am also surprised that the FDA has not stepped in to tighten the definition of medical foods.