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Professor Winters Quoted in Article on Almond Milk Food Labeling Lawsuit
08/27/2015
In the Sacramento Bee’s recent article “Lawsuits chase popular almond milk, part of national trend in food labeling claims” (by Claudia Buck, August 20, 2015), Professor Diana Winters comments “There’s been a large rise in these cases about food and food labels…cases about tea, cereal, snack foods and other packaged, processed foods and whether their labels are telling the whole story.”
"Winters said the increase in food-labeling lawsuits could be due to several competing factors. On the one hand, there's increased consumer awareness of how food ingredients affect health. And some believe some plaintiff lawyers are pursuing big payouts form large food manufacturers."
Professor Winters is associate professor of law and a Dean’s Fellow at IU McKinney School of Law. Before joining the faculty of IU in 2012, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Law, where she was also the Health Law Scholar. There she taught environmental law, environmental litigation, and advanced civil procedure. Winters received her Ph.D. in the History of the American Civilization from Harvard University, and her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was a recipient of a Dean’s Scholarship.
Winters is currently a visiting scholar with the Resnick Program for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law while on Research Leave from IU McKinney.
