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United States Food Law Update: Initial Food Safety Restructuring Efforts, Poultry Production Contract Reforms And Genetically Engineered Rice Litigation, A. Bryan Endres, Michaela N. Tarr
United States Food Law Update: Initial Food Safety Restructuring Efforts, Poultry Production Contract Reforms And Genetically Engineered Rice Litigation, A. Bryan Endres, Michaela N. Tarr
Journal of Food Law & Policy
This edition of the food law update will address recent events that may serve as bellwether signs that significant, long sought changes to the food and agricultural production system may be on the horizon. The first section of the update focuses on several general food safety initiatives. These efforts may, in the near term, coalesce into comprehensive food safety legislation. The second section analyzes two food safety actions relating to specific product categories: oysters and eggs. Section three provides a brief overview of poultry production contracts that may signal a broader restructuring of the legal relationships between farmers and the …
Hitting The Trip Wire: When Does A Company Become A "Marijuana Business"?, Lauren A. Newell
Hitting The Trip Wire: When Does A Company Become A "Marijuana Business"?, Lauren A. Newell
Law Faculty Scholarship
Like the alcohol industry was during Prohibition, the marijuana industry is a profitable one. And, as bootlegging was then, selling marijuana in the United States is currently illegal. Despite the number of states that have legalized or decriminalized the sale of marijuana for medical or recreational use under state law, marijuana sales remain illegal as a matter of federal law under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (“CSA”). Individuals and entities that violate the CSA face substantial criminal and civil liability, including prison time and fines, alongside a host of additional negative consequences arising from business, tax, bankruptcy, and …