Jaclyn Metzinger on Food Labeling

Food + Personal Care Litigation and Regulatory Highlights – January 2022

Welcome to our 2022 inaugural issue of Food and Personal Care Litigation and Regulatory Highlights, where we explore trends and developments from around these industries. It’s fair to say that the year has started off very...more

2/18/2022 / Advertising , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Food Manufacturers , NAD , Product Labels

Food Industry Litigation and Regulatory Highlights, October 2021

Welcome back from the annual food coma known as Thanksgiving dinner. If you’re still dreaming of cranberries, stuffing, and pumpkin pie, continue the gastronomic journey with our monthly wrap up of what’s been going on in...more

11/30/2021 / Advertising , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Food Manufacturers , Food Marketing , Food Safety , NAD

Food Industry Litigation and Regulatory Highlights, July – September 2021

If the summer slide and the start of school kept you too busy to follow what’s going on in the food scene, we hear you! Catch up on key developments below in this issue of our Food Industry Litigation and Regulatory...more

10/6/2021 / Class Action , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Food Manufacturers , Food Safety , USDA

Food Industry Regulatory and Litigation Highlights – June 2021

For our June review, the action stays largely in the litigation arena with vanilla getting thrown out and sustainability as well as settlements getting called into question. Meanwhile, environmental and health stakeholders...more

7/19/2021 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Food Manufacturers , Food Safety , PFAS , Popular , Product Labels

Food Industry Regulatory and Litigation Highlights – March 2021

Welcome to our selected regulatory and litigation highlights impacting the food and beverage industry in March 2021. The food court saw its own brand of March Madness with disputes over food delivery fees kicking off this...more

4/19/2021 / Advertising , Class Action , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Hidden Fees , NAD , Product Labels , Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices

Bad Break for belVita Breakfast Biscuits

Earlier this week, Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California granted a plaintiff’s second bite at the apple (or rather biscuit) to certify a class of purchasers of belVita breakfast biscuits in McMorrow v....more

3/11/2021 / Class Action , Food Labeling , Food Marketing , Misleading Impressions

Food Litigation and Regulatory Highlights – February 2021

Welcome to our monthly digest of litigation and regulatory highlights impacting the food and beverage industry. February saw another win for industry on the vanilla front, a preemption win in California state court, and FDA...more

3/10/2021 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Food Labeling , Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA). , USDA

“Prime Pork” Grading Claims Dismissed by Federal Judge In Florida

A federal judge in Florida recently dismissed a false advertising case against Tyson Fresh Meats and The Fresh Market challenging the use of the word “prime” to describe Tyson’s “Chairman’s Reserve Prime Pork.” Specifically,...more

7/23/2020 / Advertising , False Advertising , Food Labeling , Food Marketing , USDA

Sugar Content Representations Not Misleading When Ingredient Panel Provides Accurate Disclosures, Eastern District of New York...

Lawsuits challenging the advertising and labeling of sugar content – and corresponding representations that a food product may be healthy or wholesome – have become ubiquitous in the class action world. Yet, a growing number...more

4/3/2020 / Advertising , Food Labeling , Food Manufacturers

The First Circuit Reinstates False Advertising Class Action Challenging “Hazelnut Crème” Coffee

Imagine you are perusing the coffee aisle in the grocery store and see a product described as “freshly ground,” “100% Arabica Coffee,” “Hazelnut Crème,” “Medium Bodied,” and “Rich, Nutty Flavor.” Would you think that the...more

8/16/2019 / Advertising , Class Action , Corporate Counsel , False Advertising , Food Labeling

Jaclyn Metzinger

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

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