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For Your Consumption | June 2025: Making Light Work of Heavy Metal Claims

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In the June edition of For Your Consumption, our food & beverage digest of court cases and litigation trends affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries, black mold is not gold, cane sugar is not a...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Consumer Alleges Whole Grain Saltine Crackers Mislead Consumers - Food and Beverage Litigation and Regulatory Update

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A New York woman has filed a putative class action alleging Mondelez Global LLC's Nabisco Whole Grain Premium Saltine Crackers' “whole grain” labeling is misleading because the main flour ingredient is non-whole grain...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Nuts or Not Nuts? Second Circuit Declines to Consider Whether KIND’s Use of All-Natural Is Deceptive, Misleading

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Think you’re being healthy when you reach for that KIND bar in the middle of your workday? We won’t say yes or no—since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has recently declined to opine on what “all...more

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FDA continues work on consumer research on front-of-pack nutrition labeling

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a second procedural notice regarding its plans to conduct consumer research on a front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labeling scheme....more

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Food and Beverage Litigation and Regulatory Update - March 2023 #3

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LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - California Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Ban Five Food Additives - California lawmakers have introduced first-in-the-nation legislation seeking to ban five food...more

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Food and Beverage Litigation and Regulatory Update - February 2023 #2

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the availability of draft guidance for industry on labeling plant-based milk alternatives. The guidance indicates that plant-based milk alternatives can be labeled as...more

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Food and Beverage Litigation and Regulatory Update - January 2023 #2

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Shook Senior Counsel Talks FDA on NOSH Podcast - NOSH has interviewed Shook Senior Counsel John Johnson for an episode of its podcast. The episode discusses the implications of the December 2022 Reagan-Udall Foundation...more

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The Rise and Fall of “Vanilla” Labeling Challenges

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Beginning in 2020, the advertising world saw an explosion of putative class-actions challenging the use of “vanilla” to describe products where the vanilla flavoring allegedly is not derived exclusively from the vanilla bean...more

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Let it “Bee”: Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Trader Joe’s Manuka Honey Advertising Suit

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A Ninth Circuit panel recently affirmed dismissal of a putative consumer class action alleging Trader Joe’s misleadingly labeled its store brand honey as “100% New Zealand Manuka Honey,” where plaintiffs’ pollen content...more

Stinson LLP

Canada Dry Ginger Ale's Marketing Campaign Fizzles In Labeling Litigation

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Often, a marketing strategy can lead to unwanted consequences, including litigation. For example, one company decorated its fruit juice snacks with images of fruits, which led consumers to believe the fruit snacks contained...more

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