Category: Issue 507
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New Study Asserts That Organic Milk Contains More Healthy Fatty Acids
A recent study has reportedly revealed that organic milk contains a healthier balance of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids compared with milk from cows raised on conventionally managed dairy farms. Benbrook, et al., “Organic Production Enhances Milk Nutritional Quality by Shifting Fatty Acid Composition: A United States–Wide, 18-Month Study,” PLOS One, December 9, 2013. The…
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Nestle Presentation to Target Role of SSBs in Escalating Obesity Rates
New York University Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle will join other speakers at Cornell University’s “Festschrift in Honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen: New Directions in the Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition,” slated for December 13-14, 2013, in Ithaca, New York. She and Cornell’s Malden Nesheim will present their paper, “The Internationalization of the Obesity Epidemic: The Case of…
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FWW Report Suggests That Choice at the Grocery Store Is a Mirage
A December 2013 Food & Water Watch (FWW) report titled “Grocery Goliaths: How Food Monopolies Impact Consumers” examines consolidation in the food industry and how this affects “every link in the food chain, from farm to fork.” Analyzing 100 types of grocery products from cereals and soft drinks to frozen meals and crackers, the report…
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Suit Filed in Israeli Court Against McDonald’s
Mafrash Attias has reportedly filed a putative class action against McDonald Israel alleging that the company cheats consumers by putting less ice cream into its ice cream cups. According to the complaint, Attias found that the contents of two sizes of the company’s “Ice Blast” product, with an NIS 2 shekel price (US 50 cents)…
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Court Agrees to Postpone Criminal Trial Against Peanut Co. Owner/Employees
A federal court in Georgia has called for the prosecutors and defendants in a criminal action arising from the 2009 nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to the peanut products made by the Blakely, Georgia, Peanut Corp. of America to propose a scheduling order and trial dates between July 7, 2014, and August 2014. United States v. Parnell,…
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Ruby Tuesday to Pay $575,000 to Settle EEOC Age-Bias Suit
Some four years after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accused several Ruby Tuesday, Inc. restaurants in Pennsylvania and Ohio of engaging in a pattern or practice of age discrimination against 40-year-old or older job applicants, Ruby Tuesday agreed to settle the claims, without admitting any liability. EEOC v. Ruby Tuesday, Inc., No. 09-1330…
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Court Further Trims “Healthy” and “Wholesome” Claims for Snacks
A federal court in California has dismissed a number of claims with prejudice in the second amended complaint filed on behalf of a putative class alleging that the promotion of various snack products made by Procter & Gamble Co. and Kellogg Co. is false and misleading. Samet v. Procter & Gamble Co., No. 12-1891 (N.D.…
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False ECJ Claims Against Amy’s Kitchen Narrowed
A federal court in Florida has dismissed putative class claims in a consumer-fraud lawsuit to the extent they involve allegedly false “evaporated cane juice” (ECJ) labeling on Amy’s Kitchen food products that the named plaintiff did not purchase, but has otherwise allowed the remaining claims to proceed. Reilly v. Amy’s Kitchen, Inc., No. 13-21525 (S.D. Fla.,…