Tag: cookie
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“One Smart Cookie™” Goes Head-to-Head with “Original Smart Cookie”
The company that makes gourmet cookies sold as “One Smart Cookie™” has filed a trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuit against a company that makes organic cookies sold as the “Original Smart Cookie.” Jimmy’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, LLC v. Nature’s Select Food Group, LLC, No. 11-01 (D.N.J., filed April 15, 2011). According to the plaintiff, the…
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Cookie-Dough Contamination Remains in the News; E. Coli Found at Plant
According to news sources, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors have found E. coli in a package of cookie dough at Nestlé USA’s plant in Danville, Virginia. The strain did not, however, match the DNA fingerprint of the strain purportedly linked to the illnesses of some 72 people in 30 states. FDA’s David Acheson, assistant commissioner…
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First Lawsuit Filed in E. coli Raw Cookie-Dough Outbreak
Food litigation lawyer William Marler has apparently filed the first lawsuit against Nestlé USA for injury allegedly caused by E. coli-contaminated cookie dough. The outbreak, which has reportedly infected more than 70 people in 30 states since March 2009, has been linked through food surveys to the consumption of raw refrigerated cookie dough, which has…
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UK Consumer Group Claims “Junk Food” Healthier Than Baby Food
A UK-based consumer group recently released the results of a survey finding that some baby foods allegedly contain more saturated fat, salt and sugar by weight than popular adult snacks. The Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) apparently analyzed 107 products for infants or toddlers, claiming that only one-half met the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) requirements for low…