The battle between tequila’s regulatory body and third-party organizations dedicated to transparency in agave spirits continues to escalate.
On Tuesday, the Consejo Regulador del Tequila (CRT) filed a lawsuit against the Additive Free Alliance (AFA) and S2F Online, Inc. (S2F) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Jacksonville. The CRT asserts that it is the only governing body with the authority to certify tequila, and is suing the organizations for doing so, specifically via their work relating to the term “additive-free.”
