Eric Edmunds brings a combination of legal, regulatory and food industry experience to the TAG team. Having worked as a law clerk and food safety specialist with the Food Safety and Animal Health Program at the Oregon Department of Agriculture, Eric managed rulemaking proceedings, assisted with regulatory policy and implementation, and was a member of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture FSMA Technical Working Group. While in Oregon, Eric worked with farm, food production, and foodservice/retail food safety issues.

Eric earned a B.S. in Biology from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he conducted research with Great Salt Lake Institute in environmental genetics. Eric later earned a Juris Doctor degree from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon.

Before joining TAG, Eric operated Eric Edmunds Law focused on providing comprehensive legal counsel for food businesses. With TAG, Eric continues to assist companies in the food and cannabis industries with regulatory compliance in a broad range of subject matter, including FSMA compliance; effective management program development; product labeling and marketing; regulatory enforcement action response; and local, state, and federal regulatory consultation.

Eric is a Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Sanitarian with the National Environmental Health Association, and a member of the International Association for Food Protection where he serves as the vice-chair for the food law professional development group. Eric is certified in HACCP, FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food and Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSPCA) and is an instructor for the Produce Safety Rule.

Eric lives in southern Idaho, and enjoys travel, soccer, cooking, skiing, snowboarding, and spending time in the outdoors.