Tag: candy
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Series of Celebrity Tweets Ending with Tweet About Candy Not in Violation of UK Ad Code
The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has determined that a series of tweets from Rio Ferdinand and Katie Price that culminated in messages specifically referencing and showing a photo of these personalities with Snickers® bars did not violate the U.K. Code of Non-broadcast Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing (Code). The initial tweets did not…
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Massachusetts Governor Calls for Soft Drink, Candy Tax
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D) has proposed eliminating the state’s sales tax exemption on soft drinks and candy to combat obesity and control rising health care costs. Included in his fiscal year 2013 budget recommendation, Deval’s plan would reportedly raise $61.5 million targeted in large part to preserving public health programs and preventative care services.…
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Candy Makers Spar over Packaging
Hershey Company has reportedly sued Mars for trademark infringement in a Pennsylvania federal court, alleging that colors used in the packaging for Mars’s Dove peanut-butter milk-chocolate Promises® candy is too similar to what Hershey uses for its Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups®. Mars apparently filed a preemptive suit just days earlier in a Virginia federal court,…
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Legal and Cultural Issues Related to Sugar Are Focus of Two New Articles
In a recent FindLaw article, Cornell Law School Professor Sherry Colb addresses whether New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to prevent food stamp recipients from buying sugar-sweetened sodas and beverages violates any constitutional proscriptions. Titled “No Buying Soda with Food Stamps? Considering Mayor Bloomberg’s New Health Initiative,” Colb’s article concludes that arguments about equal…
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California Resident Targets Chewing Gum Maker in Purported Class Action
Alleging that no scientific evidence supports Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.’s claim that the cardamom in its Eclipse® Breeze chewing gum “neutralize[s] the toughest breath odors,” a California resident has filed consumer fraud claims against the company in a federal court on behalf of a nationwide class of consumers. Sityar v. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., No. 10-5965…
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Wholesaler Sues Chocolate Companies Alleging Price Fixing
Supervalu, Inc. has filed an antitrust action against a number of chocolate manufacturers, alleging that they conspired to fix chocolate candy prices and overcharged the plaintiff for these products from 2002 through 2008. Supervalu, Inc. v. The Hershey Co., No. 10-1354 (E.D. Pa., filed March 29, 2010). The complaint outlines the chocolate companies’ sales during the…
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Chewing Gum Claims Generate Dispute Before BBB Advertising Arm
According to the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB), Wrigley should modify or discontinue some of the claims it makes for its Eclipse® brand chewing gum. Following a challenge by Cadbury Adams USA, which makes competing products, the BBB’s advertising division examined Wrigley claims that its gum “kills germs and…
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Bronchiolitis Obliterans Now Seen in Workers at Candy Factories
Investigative reporter Andrew Schneider has published an item on his blog about “popcorn lung” problems faced by workers in other industries, such as candy manufacturing, exposed to diacetyl, a butter-flavoring chemical. According to Schneider, five patients diagnosed with the sometimes-fatal lung disease worked at a now closed Brach’s candy plant in Chicago. While federal occupational…