In its recent ruling in Weiss v. Trader Joe’s Company, the Central District of California faced the question of whether certain statements on product labels promoting high-alkalinity water were false and misleading or simply...more
On Tuesday, October 23, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important opinion reviving a decade-old Alien Tort Claims Act (ATS) suit based on alleged aiding and abetting slave labor in cocoa farms on the Ivory...more
11/9/2018
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Alien Tort Statute ,
Appeals ,
Buyers ,
Child Labor ,
Claim Amendments ,
Corporate Liability ,
Domestic Corporations ,
Farm Workers ,
Farms ,
Financing ,
Forced Labor ,
Foreign Corporations ,
Human Rights ,
Remand ,
Reversal ,
Sellers ,
Slavery ,
Supply Chain
On August 1, plaintiff and putative class representative Markeith Parks sued celebrity chef Rachael Ray’s dog food brand Nutrish® alleging that the products are falsely labeled and marketed as “natural.” The complaint states...more
Each month we will be sharing the PC Food Litigation Index, a summary of latest class action filings in the food and beverage industry. This data is compiled by Perkins Coie based on a review of dockets from courts...more
9/12/2018
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Beverage Manufacturers ,
Class Action ,
False Advertising ,
Food Labeling ,
Food Manufacturers ,
Grocery Stores ,
Misrepresentation ,
Organic ,
Proposition 65 ,
Toxic Chemicals ,
Warning Labels
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration determined in 2015 that Partially Hydrogenated Oils (“PHOs”) are not “Generally Recognized as Safe,” or GRAS. PHOs are the leading source of trans fats in the human diet.
In the nutrition...more
Just two and a half months after the Northern District of California ruled that a reasonable consumer would not be misled to believe “Diet Coke” aids in weight loss, a similar suit against Pepsi-Cola for its Diet Pepsi...more
The USDA and the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) have set forth the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (“the Rule”) for labeling food products that have been genetically modified. The Rule requires food...more
5/7/2018
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Comment Period ,
Crops ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Food Labeling ,
Food Manufacturers ,
Food Marketing ,
GMO ,
New Rules ,
Nutrition Facts Labels ,
Public Comment ,
USDA