Date: May 26, 2020
With the regulatory landscape surrounding CBD changing faster than ever, many manufacturers and processors find themselves in a grey area.
Join food industry consultants and lawyers Shawn Stevens and Joel Chappelle of the Food Industry Counsel as they cover topics including what CBD truly is, its legal status in food and beverages, and how your company can safely and effectively enter the CBD market.
Food Industry Counsel is the only law firm in the U.S. that works with the food industry exclusively, helping food companies comply with FDA and USDA food safety regulations, coordinate crisis management and recall efforts, defend and pursue food safety claims, and reduce food safety exposure.
Meet the Speakers:
Founder, Food Industry Consultant and Lawyer,
Food Industry Counsel
Shawn Stevens
Founder, Food Industry Consultant and Lawyer
Food Industry Counsel
Shawn Stevens, the founding member of FIC, is a nationally recognized food industry lawyer who has dedicated his entire firm to "Going All-In for Food and All-Out for Those Who Produce It."
Shawn works closely throughout the U.S. and abroad with food industry clients (including the world’s largest growers, processors, restaurant chains, distributors and grocers) helping them protect their brand by complying with FDA and USDA food safety regulations, reducing food safety risk, managing recalls, and defending high-profile food safety cases.
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Joel Chappelle
Food Industry Consultant and Lawyer
Food Industry Counsel
Joel Chappelle has more than a decade of food safety legal and consulting experience. He began his career working on behalf of some of the nation’s largest food companies, helping them manage high-profile foodborne illness outbreaks and the litigation which followed. While working extensively in these cases on root cause analysis, pre-suit investigation, expansive discovery, and eventual trial, Joel gained valuable insight on how to best manage the risks associated with large-scale food production and distribution. His experience also includes helping food companies resolve a wide-range of complex food safety legal and regulatory issues, and also manage food product recalls and related insurance claims.
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