DLA Piper LLP (US)

Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations; FDA

Partner

Maggie Craig focuses her practice in civil litigation and regulatory compliance, with a specific emphasis on food, nutrition and dietary supplements, consumer products, food and consumer product recalls, corporate compliance and consumer fraud class actions. Maggie also has experience with direct defense of aging services facilities in lawsuits asserting professional liability, personal injury, negligence, elder abuse, wrongful death and other related claims.

She represents national and international manufacturers of food, dietary supplements, food start-ups, cosmetics, clothing retailers and a variety of consumer products. She also has international in-house experience, working abroad in Amsterdam, Netherlands as international regulatory and compliance legal counsel for a multi-national food company.

Maggie has hands on, in-depth experience navigating food and nutrition industry trends, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regulations. She also has extensive experience with the scientific substantiation landscape related to product benefit statements, including health claims, structure function claims, qualified health claims and product formulations.

As in-house counsel, Maggie served as international legal counsel to more than 40 business units with particular emphasis on building and executing corporate compliance initiatives and related compliance matters, as well as extensive regulatory advising and risk analysis for US product benefit statements claims covering products ranging from baby food to adult dietary supplements.

Maggie's training in Nutrition and Food Studies from New York University, combined with her litigation, regulatory and international in-house experience, provides her with great insight into food and dietary supplement-related litigation and regulatory matters as well as national and international corporate compliance matters.

English, Spanish

Defense Research Institute; Food and Drug Law Institute; Association of Business Trial Lawyers

J.D., Brigham Young University; B.S., New York University