State Meat Label Restrictions Face Preemption Challenges

By Robert Hibbert and Amaru Sanchez ( March 6, 2019, 2:37 PM EST) -- With a focus upon the emerging cell-cultured meat industry, there has been considerable recent discussion about the significance of jurisdictional differences at the federal level between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But what now appears to be moving on a parallel track are various recently enacted laws or proposed legislation at the state level designed to impose new labeling requirements and/or restrictions for meat-alternative products, both cell- and plant-based, generally designed to restrict access to traditional terminology such as "ground beef" on such products' labels....

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