Food & Agriculture

Steptoe attorneys understand the complexity of the enormous changes affecting the future growth of the food and agriculture industry, emphasizing environmental protection, conservation, and scientific research.  This vast industry is essential to the economic health of virtually every community, and driven by the globalization of markets and cultures, advances in information, changes in the workforce, and biological and other technologies.

We assist our clients with a variety of legal matters:

• regulatory issues
• food labeling and point-of-purchase consistent with FDA and USDA requirements
• direct and indirect food additive petitions
• food contact substance notifications
• import and export issues

Steptoe also advises clients on a broad range of compliance and enforcement issues related to food production, including federal regulatory approaches to genetically modified organisms, state requirements such a California’s Proposition 65, and product recall strategies.

Select News & Events

• Steptoe Broadens Food Safety Practice with Addition of FDA's Cheeseman and Simmons
• Nanotechnology in Food: the US and Global Regulatory Environment
• The Food Safety Modernization Act and Emerging Pathogens in Food Processing Facilities
• Toxicological Threshold of Concern and Nanotechnology in Food and Food Packaging
• Food Contact Plastics Conference 2012: Global Regulatory Summit

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Publications

• Chinese Authorities Announce Reconfigured Food Safety Responsibilities
  April 10, 2013
• UN Draft Report Calls on Corporations and Nations to Uphold Human Rights
  December 20, 2010
• Resolution of Panalpina and Related Cases Yields Significant Penalties, New Enforcement Theories
  November 29, 2010
• Regulatory Perspectives on Nanotechnologies in Foods and Food Contact Materials
  November 2010, International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies

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