Samuel D. Jockel

• Advising restaurants and food distributors on shifting food supply for retail sale as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. 
• Advising companies on the development of hand sanitizers under the OTC monograph and FDA temporary policies. 
• Providing strategic counseling to ingredient suppliers and food companies on bioengineered food labeling requirements and development of related claims.
• Counseled a client in engagement with the FDA in response to an outbreak investigation and issuance of a warning letter, including drafting a response letter that averted further enforcement action. 
• Advised a restaurant chain and food processor on produce supply chain management practices, including obligations under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. Assisted clients in obtaining self-affirmed generally recognized as safe status for food contact substances and food ingredients. 
• Advised a multinational ingredient supplier on food safety obligations under the Food Safety Modernization Act, including preparing a food safety plan for compliance with Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls requirements. 
• Advised an e-commerce platform on all aspects of FDA regulatory compliance for dietary supplement manufacturing, including the legal status of ingredients, labeling and advertising, and enforcement and litigation risk.
• Worked with a cosmetics startup on developing marketing claims to minimize regulatory and litigation risk. 
• Assisted a food company to prepare for a NAFTA certification-of-origin verification audit.
• Advised clients on USDA import and export permit and certification requirements.

Sam Jockel is a senior associate in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group and a member of the Food, Drug & Device/FDA Team. Sam focuses his practice on regulatory, policy, and litigation matters involving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) related to food, beverages, cosmetics, dietary supplements, and OTC drugs. Sam assists clients on premarket clearance, import and export issues, supply chain management, and product labeling and advertising. He helps clients navigate product recalls and respond to regulatory enforcement actions, and defends clients in consumer class actions. 

Sam served as a trial attorney in the USDA’s Office of the General Counsel. Sam was counsel for the implementation of the National Bioengineered (BE) Food Disclosure Standard, playing a key role in providing advice to senior USDA officials, drafting the proposed rulemaking, and defending the USDA in an Administrative Procedure Act challenge. At the USDA, Sam represented the Agricultural Marketing Service, Food Safety and Inspection Service, and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in administrative enforcement proceedings under the Animal Welfare Act, Packers and Stockyards Act, and Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. Sam began his legal career as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellow in the FDA’s Office of International Programs, where he worked on medical product safety and regulatory harmonization initiatives.

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• District of Columbia

Education

• Boston College (J.D., 2014)
• Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 2011)

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