Tag: milk
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U.S. Codex Delegates Schedule Food Additives Meeting
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety and the Food and Drug Administration have announced a February 17, 2015, public meeting in College Park, Maryland, to discuss draft U.S. positions for consideration during the 47th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives slated for March 23-27 in Xi’an,…
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Shook Authors Discuss Purported Class Actions Against Food Cos. in Law360
Shook, Hardy & Bacon Agribusiness & Food Safety Partner Jim Muehlberger and Associate Jara Settles discuss the modern consumer protection landscape in a January 2, 2015, expert analysis published in Law360. Noting that food lawsuits “tend to garner significant notoriety,” the authors focus on recent litigation against Whole Foods Market Inc. alleging that the health-food purveyor “benefited…
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Class Decertified in Blue Diamond ECJ Almond-Milk Labeling Case
A California federal court has granted Blue Diamond’s motion to decertify a statewide class of consumers who alleged that the company’s almond milk product labels were misleading because they cited “evaporated cane juice” on the ingredient list rather than the alleged common name for the substance, sugar. Werdebaugh v. Blue Diamond Growers, No. 12-2724 (N.D.…
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BPA in Canned Goods Purportedly Raises Blood Pressure
Researchers with Seoul National University have published a study allegedly finding that people who drank soy milk from cans containing bisphenol A (BPA) exhibited a statistically significant increase in blood pressure. Sanghyuk Bae and Yun-Chul Hong, “Exposure to Bisphenol A From Drinking Canned Beverage Increases Blood Pressure,” Hypertension, December 2014. Involving 60 adults older than…
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Yogurt Sugar Content and “Non-GMO” Almond Milk Labels Challenged
Whole Foods Market Inc. is the target of two new putative nationwide class actions, one filed in a Texas federal court regarding the amount of sugar in the company’s plain Greek yogurt and the other filed in a California state court over alleged false advertising and sales of Blue Diamond almond milk products with a…
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CSPI Seeks Data from FDA About Raw Milk Drug Residue Survey
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Freedom of Information Act for “the data collected by the Center for Veterinary Medicine under its Raw Milk Drug Residue Survey.” According to CSPI, FDA conducted the survey in 2012 “because excess and…
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Review of Class Certification Denied, Ascertainability Split Remains
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request for interlocutory review of a class certification ruling in an action alleging that Blue Diamond Growers’ almond milk is mislabeled as “All Natural” and the company hides its added sugar content by listing “evaporated cane juice” (ECJ) on its label instead. Blue Diamond Growers v.…
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California Courts Wait for FDA Guidance in Two ECJ Cases
Following similar decisions from courts across the country, two California federal courts have delayed final rulings in cases accusing Kashi and Trader Joe’s of mislabeling their products by using the term “evaporated cane juice” (ECJ) in their ingredient lists rather than simply “sugar,” which the plaintiffs allege is the same substance. Gitson v. Trader Joe’s…