Plaintiff’s attorneys love a regulatory vacuum
For some years now there have been numerous class action lawsuits about food labeling, in fact it’s one of the most active areas in which class action litigation is filed, in part due to the increased interest from the public in things like natural and clean label … and this is all happening in a relative regulatory vacuum. And plaintiff’s counsel fill that vacuum. The FDA has not clearly defined what ‘natural’ means and there’s no clear legal definition of ‘clean’ or ‘processed.’ Angel Garganta, Venable