Chair of the firm's Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Brand Management & Protection Group Andrew Lustigman will participate in a panel entitled “Making Health Claims: Navigating Scrutiny, Science, and Strategy” as part of ACI’s 9th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Advertising Claims Substantiation on February 5, 2026, at 2:45 P.M. at the New York City Bar Association in NYC. Andy’s fellow panelists include Penelope Barnett, Vice President, Chief Marketing Counsel NA at Colgate-Palmolive; Megan Olsen, Senior Vice ...
In August 2025, a federal judge in Philadelphia dismissed claims against a group of food manufacturers (Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mondelez, Kellog, General Mills, etc.) accusing them of engineering ultra-processed foods to be addictive and harmful. In December, however, the City of San Francisco filed an even more comprehensive lawsuit against many of the same companies, seeking to recover financial penalties for the immense healthcare costs to uninsured consumers as well as to end deceptive and child-targeted marketing of foods containing unhealthy additives.
Andrew Lustigman, Chair of Olshan's Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Brand Management & Protection Group, will speak on the panel “Food Marketing, Advertising, and Promotion Essentials: Ensuring Claims Compliancy and Meeting Substantiation Standards Relative to Health, Nutrition, Structure, and Function” as part of ACI’s Food Law and Regulation Boot Camp which will be held virtually on July 22, 2025, at 4:00 P.M. The panel will examine the relationship between the food product label and advertising and promotion, how to differentiate between “claims made” and “claims substantiated,” understanding what you can and cannot say in food advertising and promotion, how to distinguish FDA and FTC jurisdiction and authority relative to claims substantiation in food advertising and promotion, and much more.
Andrew Lustigman, Chair of Olshan's Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Brand Management & Protection Group, will speak on the panel “What It Really Means to be ‘Green’ in 2024: Mastering the Intricacies of Making and Substantiating Green Claims in Today’s Regulatory Landscape” as part of ACI’s 8th Annual Summit on Food Law – Regulation, Compliance and Litigation on May 1, 2024, at 1:15 p.m. at The Metropolitan Club, Chicago, IL. The panel will explore the new proposed changes to the Green Guides and the impact that FTC’s contemplated rulemaking could have on environmental marketing claims, differences in the FTC’s guidance and state law requirements for the term “recyclable,” how to manage the risks associated with vendors making claims about your products and green claim trends that are vulnerable to class-action activity.
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Andrew Lustigman, Chair of Olshan's Advertising, Marketing & Promotion's Group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Brand Management & Protection Group, will speak on the panel “Food Marketing, Advertising and Promotion Essentials: Ensuring Claims Compliancy and Meeting Substantiation Standards Relative to Health, Nutrition, Structure and Function” as part of ACI’s Food Law and Regulation Boot Camp virtual conference on July 19, 2023, at 1:45pm (CT). The panel will explore the relationship between food product labels and advertising and promotion, how to distinguish ...
Andrew Lustigman, Chair of Olshan's Advertising, Marketing & Promotion's Group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Brand Management & Protection Group, will speak on the panel “Evolution of Food Advertising and Marketing: From Print Ads to Social Media to the Metaverse” as part of ACI’s 7th Annual Summit on Food Law – Regulation, Compliance and Litigation on April 19, 2023, at 10:30am at The Metropolitan Club, Chicago, IL.