There is no shortage of challenges facing businesses in the food industry — new bioterrorism regulations, genetically modified ingredients, nutrition politics, changing product availability, regulated prices, mandatory labeling, product recalls, and mounting processing issues — to name just a few. These are not simply legal challenges — they affect every aspect of how food sector companies do business.

To address the challenges and opportunities in this competitive environment, Foley offers an experienced legal team with specific skills and insight into the food industry. The firm's Food Industry Team offers a broad array of services to companies and trade associations creating a recipe for our clients' success.

Bringing Experience and Strength to the Food Sector
Our interdisciplinary Food Industry Team provides comprehensive legal services for companies that produce, distribute, or sell food and businesses that deal with them. We represent manufacturers, processors, packers, farmers, storage holders, distributors, brokers, wholesalers, and retailers in structuring their organizations, navigating regulatory processes, and protecting the commercial applications of their products and technologies. We also assist agribusinesses, importers/exporters, food service organizations, trade associations, and equipment manufacturers.

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Our Food Industry Team combines sophisticated legal experience with deep scientific and technical understanding to skillfully advance the interests of our clients. Our service areas include:

• Product Development
• Food Safety
• Labeling, Packaging, and Recalls
• Genetically Modified Ingredients
• Brand Name Identification and Protection
• Promotion, Advertising, Web and E-Commerce Issues
• Contractual Arrangements and Disputes
• Distribution and Franchise
• Imports/Exports
• Regulatory Counseling and Negotiation with Regulatory Authorities (U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Enforcement Proceedings
• Product Liability/Defense of Contaminated Food Claims

Beyond legal matters simmering in the regulatory stew, our clients harvest the advantages of food industry attorneys acting in a broad range of legal fields:

• Business Transactions, Securities, and Mergers and Acquisitions
• Finance
• Business Reorganizations, Bankruptcy, and Creditors' Rights
• Labor and Employment/Employee Benefits
• Environmental, Health, and Safety
• Real Estate
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Antitrust and Trade Regulation
• Taxation
• Key Executive Compensation
• International Law/Regulatory Requirements
• Legislative Representation and Public Policy
• Administrative Rulemaking Proceedings
• Intellectual Property