{"id":422,"date":"2025-12-16T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/?p=422"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:23:44","slug":"new-doj-health-and-safety-unit-formed-to-protect-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2025\/12\/16\/new-doj-health-and-safety-unit-formed-to-protect-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"New DOJ Health and Safety Unit Formed to Protect Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 2, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of a new unit within the Criminal Division\u2019s Fraud Section, called the Health &amp; Safety Unit (HSU). The creation of this unit comes on the heels of the DOJ disbanding the Civil Division\u2019s Consumer Protection Branch in September of this year, a group that utilized both civil and criminal enforcement in the consumer protection area. The new unit coincides with the DOJ\u2019s restructuring efforts in this space. According to the DOJ, the HSU will serve two main purposes: (i) protecting the food and drug supply for consumers and (ii) enforcing consumer product safety laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/new_doj_health_safety_unit_formed_protect_consumers_1225.html\">Alert<\/a><\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 2, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of a new unit within the Criminal Division\u2019s Fraud Section, called the Health &amp; Safety Unit (HSU). The creation of this unit comes on the heels of the DOJ disbanding the Civil Division\u2019s Consumer Protection Branch in September of this year, a group &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/2025\/12\/16\/new-doj-health-and-safety-unit-formed-to-protect-consumers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New DOJ Health and Safety Unit Formed to Protect Consumers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[241],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":241,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/whitecollarcriminallaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}