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FoodLegal can provide you with the expertise in food laws and food regulation compliance that you need.

FoodLegal is an Australian law firm specialising in providing a wide range of services including legal, commercial and technical advice to the food industry. FoodLegal can be your one-stop shop for expertise in food label laws, the food standards code, Trade Practices Act compliance requirements for food products, food producer standards, food business issues and government regulation and policy issues.

We advise organisations of all types and sizes including some of Australia's most well known food companies, government agencies, industry bodies as well as food importers.

FoodLegal has the expertise to provide specialist multidisciplinary services for clients with food-oriented legal compliance issues, commercial issues or policy issues.

The services of FoodLegal include:

• Advisory services (such as in relation to health claims for food, nutrition claims, labelling for health products, other labelling issues for foods or beverages or nutraceuticals or functional foods or energy foods; food composition laws; food contamination laws, food recall processes protocols and legal rights and legal obligations of food supply businesses and food consumers);
• Dispute resolution, negotiation or litigation or advocacy services including dealing with government agencies and enforcement authorities;
• Strategic commercial and corporate advisory services pertaining to food companies such as for food business acquisitions and food business divestments;
• Transactional negotiation or documentation for many different contractual arrangements in food supply and food distribution logistics laws, and food industry policy development; and industry networking introductions and brokering;
• Advocacy and submission preparatory research and policy development work in industry or policy or commercial legal issues; and
• Educational research and training services, and more, for food companies, government agencies and environment health personnel engaged in food law, food safety and food law compliance.

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