Case Studies

Our client, an established Los Angeles food company, was introducing a new beverage product to the marketplace. Hundreds of thousands of dollars had been spent on promotions, slotting, packaging, perishable raw materials and commitments to retailers such as Albertson’s, Ralphs and Safeway.

This client is a family owned South American food business that wanted to buy a competitor in a neighboring country to greatly enhance our client’s revenues and market power.

A nutritional supplement client of the firm was concerned about whether lead content in its products violated California Prop 65. The client did not want to be sued under Prop 65 and did not want to put the statement on its labeling: Warning, this product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects and other reproductive harm.

Our seafood importer client ordered 250,000 pounds of frozen whitefish from China which, upon inspection at the California port, proved wholly sub-standard. Our client refused delivery and shipped the goods back to China where the Chinese supplier refused to accept them.

Our client supplies truffle flavored olive oil to Trader Joe’s, who was sued in a federal court class action regarding the accuracy of Trader Joe’s label.

Our client was proud of the fact that it had 25 years of paper files in boxes in its warehouse labeled by year and company department.

Our client is a U.S. company that ships its food products all over the world. One of their profitable markets is a small eastern European country where the client’s goods have a cult following.

Our Los Angeles client, who exports food worldwide, received photos of high quality frozen Pacific squid from a fishing company. This squid is highly prized in China and our client has an important Chinese customer who will take all he can get.

A Canadian company contacted The Food Lawyers® reporting it had thousands of pounds of frozen smoked salmon embargoed at the U.S.-Canada border because an FDA spot-check found Listeria in some of the product.

An FDA Warning Letter is just what it sounds like: A letter from FDA warning you they think you’re doing something wrong. The “warning” part of the letter is the fact that if you don’t stop what you’re doing, FDA is warning you something bad is going to happen.