In the December edition of For Your Consumption, our food & beverage digest of court cases and litigation trends affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries, we ponder how words mean what they say, whisky still isn’t malt liquor, and there s’more wheat in graham crackers. Bon appétit!
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December 2024
For Your Consumption – December 2024: same as it ever was (or would be)
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