Category: Issue 399
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Consumers Abandon Suits Alleging Misleading Deli Meat Labeling
A federal court in Florida has dismissed without prejudice two putative class actions against Kraft Foods alleging that the packaging for its Oscar Mayer® deli meat products misleads consumers about their actual fat content. McDougal v. Kraft Foods, Inc., No. 11-61202; Rogel v. Kraft Foods, Inc., No. 11-61281 (S.D. Fla., decided June 23, 2011). The plaintiffs…
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Juicy Juice® Health Claims Class Action Appealed to Ninth Circuit
Plaintiffs alleging that they were misled by the purportedly unsubstantiated claims Nestlé USA Inc. made about its Juicy Juice® Brain Development and Immunity products have filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from a district court order dismissing their consolidated class action. Chavez/ Bonsignore v. Nestlé USA, Inc., No. 09-9192 (C.D. Cal., notice…
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Farm Workers Allege Hostile Work Environment Created to Certify Farm for Foreign Workers
African-Americans who briefly worked at a North Carolina farm in 2010 allege that they were subjected to a hostile work environment and discriminatory job conditions so the employer could obtain certification under a Department of Labor (DOL) program that allows farmers to hire seasonal foreign workers when U.S. workers are not available and hiring foreign…
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Suit Alleges Burrito Salt and Calorie Counts Were Misrepresented
A woman who claims she consumed Ramona’s burritos believing they were low in calories and sodium, has filed a putative class action alleging that the company mislabeled its products and that the burritos were much higher in calories and sodium than individual labels in and before 2006 and bulk labels indicated. Solomon v. Ramona’s Mex. Food…
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Class Action Alleges Inflated Prices for Home-Delivered Groceries
A Pennsylvania resident has sued Safeway, Inc. on behalf of a putative nationwide class of consumers who placed online orders for the home delivery of groceries and were allegedly charged about 10 percent more for each item in addition to a delivery fee. Rodman v. Safeway, Inc., No. 11-03003 (N.D. Cal., filed June 17, 2011).…
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FSIS Finds Unapproved Drugs in Veal, Seeks Permanent Injunction Against Producer
Alleging that tissue samples from Virtue Calves veal sold for slaughter since 1995 have contained illegal drug residues, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has sued the producer and its owners in a California federal court seeking an order to stop the defendants from selling food containing an unsafe new…
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IOM Issues Report on Early Childhood Obesity
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has released a June 23, 2011, report titled Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies that recommends “evidence-based strategies… to promote healthy weights in children from birth to age 5.” According to IOM, “almost 10 percent of infants and toddlers carry excess weight for their length, and slightly more than 20 percent of…
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Advocacy Group Urges OIRA to Allow BPA Listing Under TSCA
Scholars with the Center for Progressive Reform have written a letter to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Cass Sunstein asking that OIRA conclude its review of the proposed listing of bisphenol A (BPA) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Stating that the review has been “delayed far longer than Executive Order…