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In a complex global market, it’s essential for companies to anticipate, assess, and respond to a host of domestic and international regulatory challenges. With significant experience in virtually every major market, our food and agriculture team can help navigate cross-border regulatory issues and achieve a competitive advantage while minimizing compliance risks.
The lawyers at Hogan Lovells have been involved in virtually every major food regulatory initiative of the past three decades, helping to develop and interpret legislation and policy, including FDA's new food safety law (FSMA) and nutrition labeling requirements.
Together, we know the decision makers and the decision procedures inside out. We effectively draft legislation, assess proposed legislation, develop amendments, draft congressional testimony, write comments for proposed regulations and guidance documents, and more.
Many of our lawyers are former government officials, including former members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the European Commission, and the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Chinese National People’s Congress, as well as veterans of FDA.
Our experience in the public sector, as well as in private practice, enables us to successfully guide clients through the labyrinth of global regulatory issues. We help with regulatory compliance through representation, document drafting, and keeping tabs on developments in regulatory agencies, both domestic and international.
We also keep clients abreast of changes in food safety laws and restrictions, such as those for labeling foods developed through biotechnology and restrictions on the use of bovine materials over concerns about “mad cow” disease.
Our capabilities at a glance
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Hear from our clients and industry leaders
The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.
Chambers & Partners, UK Guide, 2025
An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.
Chambers & Partners UK 2025
Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.
Chambers & Partners, Germany, 2025
The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.
Chambers & Partners, UK 2025
Representative experience
Represented a coalition of food industry trade associations and companies in the enactment and implementation of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990.
Assisted clients in developing health claim petitions that would authorize the use of various health and qualified health claims on foods and dietary supplements.
On behalf of major food manufacturers and their trade associations, we assisted in developing petitions seeking FDA authorization to make nutrient content claims related to carbohydrates in food.
Represented food industry trade associations and companies in the development and implementation of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act).
Represented a coalition of food industry trade associations and individual companies before the U.S. Congress in shaping legislation governing allergen labelling.
Served as legal counsel to a coalition of food industry trade associations whose efforts led to the enactment of the Federal Anti-Tampering Act.
Represented the seed industry’s national trade association in legislation leading to an amendment of the Plant Variety Protection Act that strengthened seed companies’ intellectual property rights.
Provided strategic guidance and counseling on comments submitted in response to a rule that would establish new manufacturing and premarket notification requirements for new infant formulas.
Assisted importers of meat and meat-derived ingredients in addressing USDA restrictions on imports, helping shape realistic U.S. policy and facilitate the importation of food and food ingredients into the U.S.
Awards and recognitions
Band 1 for Product Liability: Food
Chambers UK
2020
Band 1 for Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation Nationwide
Chambers USA
2020
Band 2 for Regulatory: Agro/Food
Chambers Europe
2020
Tier 1 for EU Regulatory (Belgium)
The Legal 500 EMEA
2020
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