Food Compliance and Enforcement

Representative experience

Counseled companies on developing food safety plans, supplier verification programs, and food defense plans that comply with FSMA requirements.

Advised companies on how to prepare for and manage a regulatory inspection, as well as related enforcement, preparing for Regulatory Meetings with the agency, and negotiating consent decrees.

Helped companies stay up to date on agency inspection and enforcement plans and priorities, as well as trends seen by the food industry.

Assisted companies in handling product recalls, reports to the Reportable Food Registry, outbreak investigations, and corrective actions needed to resume production.

Helped companies respond to demand letters regarding labeling and marketing claims.

Counseled numerous food companies on compliance with the requirements for bottled water, low-acid foods, acidified foods, juice HACCP, seafood HACCP, and meat and poultry HACCP.

Counseled numerous food industry clients on complying with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s requirements related to food package inserts, premiums, and gifts.

Conducted numerous due diligence investigations for companies involved in a takeover or merger, identifying serious regulatory deficiencies and avoiding a company from acquiring another’s problems.

On behalf of many food manufactures, we are successfully working with the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations on product tampering, extortion, and product counterfeit matters.

Successfully represented many meat and poultry processors in responding to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service noncompliance reports (NRs), 30-Day letters, and Notices of Intended Enforcement Action.

Assisted a major grain importer in resolving concerns raised by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service arising under the Federal Noxious Weed Seed Act.