Food and beverage law

Our Food and Beverage Law Hub serves up all the latest decisions, regulatory developments, food standards code updates, consumer law issues and insights into the global food tech industry.

Unwrapping recent developments in the food sector
Insight 12 Aug 2019

Associates Tiernan Christensen and Nick Li report on some noteworthy developments relevant to the food industry in Australia.

ACCC Food & Beverage Risk & Compliance

Will the Australian food regulator change its tuna?
Insight 12 Aug 2019

From milk to meat and from chicken to tuna, the global animal-based food industry has been asking 'what's in a name?' in the context of the policy debate over the regulation of vegan alternatives to animal-based food products. In this artic...

Agribusiness & Agtech Food & Beverage Intellectual Property Technology

Meat marks update
Insight 17 Dec 2018

Two recent trade mark disputes in the meat industry illustrate that even where marks share similar elements, they are unlikely to be deceptively similar if the overall impression created by each mark is substantially different.

Food & Beverage Intellectual Property Patents & Trade Marks

Food fraud and technology - opportunities and limitations
Insight 17 Dec 2018

The high-profile ‘fake honey’ scandal has made food fraud front-page news in Australia in 2018. With the ACCC having now concluded its honey investigation, due to ‘testing uncertainty’, we explore how new techno...

Food & Beverage Technology

Measuring ‘spilt milk’
Insight 17 Dec 2018

Can food and beverage industry participants be found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct for failure to comply with aspects of relevant regulatory regimes? The Federal Court has confirmed that they can.

Food & Beverage Technology

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