Tag: soup
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Plaintiffs Allege Campbell’s “No Preservatives” Soups Contain Chemical Preservatives
Campbell Soup Co. faces a putative class action alleging that it deceptively markets its soups as having “No Preservatives Added” or being “Made With Patience, Not Preservatives” despite containing citric acid, ascorbic acid or other preservatives. Cabrega v. Campbell Soup Co., No. 18-3827 (E.D.N.Y., filed July 2, 2018). The complaint alleges that such statements violate consumer-protection statutes…
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Advocacy Groups Challenge Constitutionality of California Shark Fin Ban
Organizations representing the interests of Asian Americans have filed suit in a federal court in California against the governor and agency officials seeking a declaration that legislation enacted in October 2011 banning the “possession, sale, offer for sale, distribution, or trade of shark fins” violates their members’ equal protection rights, unlawfully interferes with interstate commerce…
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Campbell’s Reaches Preliminary Settlement in Low-Sodium Soup Class Action
The Campbell Soup Co. will change its low-sodium tomato soup labels under a settlement with a class of consumers who sued the company in a New Jersey federal court in 2010, alleging that these products cost more while actually containing about the same level of sodium as the company’s regular tomato soup. Smajlaj v. Campbell…