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- Year in Review 2019
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EFSA Issues Guidance on Smoke Flavoring
The European Food Safety Authority has issued scientific guidance on the inclusion of smoke flavoring in food products. The guidance includes notes on the characterization of the flavoring, proposed uses, exposure assessments and safety data. Smoke flavoring has increasingly been a target of putative class actions in the United States, including lawsuits targeting smoked gouda…
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Lawsuit Alleges Market Basket Coffee Serving Sizes Mislead
A plaintiff has filed a putative class action alleging Demoulas Super Markets Inc. includes representations on its Market Basket coffee indicating that the tins hold 76 to 79 cups of coffee but only contain 37 to 39 cups when prepared according to the label’s instructions. Cohen v. Demoulas Super Mkts. Inc., No. 21-10177 (D. Mass., filed…
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Claims Trimmed in Whole Foods Graham Cracker Lawsuit
A New York federal court has dismissed some claims while allowing others to continue in a lawsuit alleging Whole Foods Market Group Inc. misleads consumers by not using graham flour to produce or honey to sweeten its “honey graham crackers.” Campbell v. Whole Foods Mkt. Grp. Inc., No. 20-1291 (S.D.N.Y., entered February 2, 2021). The…
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Lawsuit Challenging USDA Pork Inspection Policy to Continue
A California federal court has denied a motion to dismiss an advocacy group lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) challenging the implementation of the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s New Swine Inspection System (NSIS). Ctr. for Food Safety v. Perdue, No. 20-0256 (N.D. Cal., entered February 4, 2021). The plaintiffs, several advocacy…
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Advocacy Groups Challenge Smithfield Foods Sustainability Marketing
A coalition of advocacy groups has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asserting that Smithfield Foods misleadingly markets its pork products as “produced in an environmentally responsible and sustainable way” despite the company’s production methods allegedly falling “far below the level of environmental sustainability that a reasonable consumer would expect based on…
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Shook Attorneys Detail Honey Litigation for Law360
Shook Partner Jim Muehlberger and Of Counsel John Johnson III have authored an article for Law360 detailing litigation targeting honey producers. “Honey producers have sometimes been accused of diluting their product with syrup,” they explain. “They have also faced many other accusations, including that their honey contains contaminants, that it lacks some key quality characteristic, or that its country of origin has…
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California Files Prop. 65 Action Against Seafood Cos.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against five importers, wholesalers and distributors of seafood, alleging they sell fish with levels of cadmium and lead high enough to require warnings governed by the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Prop. 65). California v. Pacific Am. Fish Co. Inc. (Cal. Super. Ct., filed December 28, 2020).…
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