Leatherhead Food Research advises food producers - including those in the bakery and snacks sectors - to act now to assess the potential impact of the European Commission’s proposed Green Claims Directive on their products.
Could ‘carbon neutral’ claims land food & beverage brands in legal hot water, even where they are certified by a third party such as the Carbon Trust? FoodNavigator-USA asked attorneys to weigh in after Danone Waters America found itself at the receiving...
Food & beverage class actions surged in 2021, driven in part by a tsunami of cases over heavy metals in baby food, but judges are wearying of cases that assume consumers have zero common sense, according to a review by law firm Perkins Coie.
NewClimate Institute has released a report accusing big companies like Nestlé and Unilever of putting out ‘ambitious sounding’ carbon goals that have ‘very low integrity’. The food giants – both of whom have made net zero pledges – reject this conclusion.