Ashley Yull

• Evaluated the compliance status of substances used in food packaging and in food processing equipment and drafted legal opinion letters regarding the same.
• Worked to prepare and submit numerous food contact notifications to obtain premarket clearances from the FDA for substances used in packaging materials.
• Assisted clients in the recycled plastics industry in obtaining Letters of No Objection from the FDA and Health Canada, confirming the capability of their recycling processes to produce post-consumer recycled material that is suitable for food-contact use.
• Advised on product labeling obligations under California’s Proposition 65 and other state-related legislation.
• Assisted clients by monitoring legislation and policies affecting the regulation of materials used in contact with food in various jurisdictions including the United States, European Union, Latin America, China, and Japan.

Ashley Yull is a senior associate in Alston & Bird’s Food & Beverage Industry Team within the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. She counsels clients in industries regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Ashley concentrates her practice on helping clients navigate complex compliance and enforcement related issues involving food, beverages, dietary supplements, and cosmetics. Ashley also provides regulatory support in food and beverage litigation.

Before joining the firm, Ashley advised clients on the regulation of food contact materials in multiple jurisdictions at another international law firm. She assisted companies in bringing new food contact materials, including plastics, biopolymers, adhesives, coatings, recycled materials, and components thereof, to market and helped manage post-market issues such as recalls and accidental adulterations for food contact materials. She also previously clerked for Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Ashley earned her J.D., cum laude, from the American University Washington College of Law  where she served as a senior staff member on the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law and as the executive editor of the Health Law & Policy Brief. She was also a student attorney in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. 

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York

Education

• American University (J.D., 2014)
• Boston University (M.A., 2008)
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges (B.S., 2006)