Increased Enforcement On Functional Foods Triggers Class Action Risk
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Functional foods increasingly are vulnerable to costly class action lawsuits as regulators crack down on advertising claims in this previously oft-ignored category.
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