Washington, DC — The Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a federal lawsuit this week against the Trump Administration for its failure to comply with the 2016 federal law on the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are...
Austin, TX -- A Whole Foods Market shareholder is seeking to block the $13.7 billion acquisition by Amazon through a federal lawsuit filed Thursday claiming the deal undervalues the grocer and did not disclose key information, reports 512tech.com Shareholder Robert Riegel filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the...
Philadelphia, PA – The city’s controversial 1.5-cent-per ounce sugar-sweetened soda tax on beverage distributors was upheld on Wednesday by a Pennsylvania appeals court. The American Beverage Association, Philadelphia residents and business owners had filed suit last fall challenging the tax, saying it represented illegal double taxation. The tax was put...
Kerala, India — Arjuna Natural Extracts Ltd plans to take action against numerous U.S. based companies who Arjuna Natural claims is infringing on company patents. Arjuna Natural Extracts’ BCM-95, which is the bioavailable curcumin standardized for curcuminoids which also consist of turmeric essential oil and turmerones, was invented, manufactured and...
Los Angeles, CA — POM Wonderful filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California alleging that Trenton, NJ-based Bai Brands had infringed on its “Super Tea” trademark, causing a likelihood of confusion. Both POM and Bai super tea products are antioxidant-rich real brewed teas...
Washington, D.C. — Madison, WI-based Quincy Bioscience Holding Co. subsidiary, Prevagen, Inc., which is also doing business as Sugar River Supplements, has been charged by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York State Attorney General with making false and unsubstantiated claims that Prevagen memory-improvement supplement helps to improve memory...
New York City, NY — The North American Olive Oil Association (NAOOA), which had recently filed a lawsuit against TV personality and physician Dr. Mehmet Oz, has now taken legal action against importer and bulk specialty olive oil distributor Veronica Foods, as well as seven other specialty retail stores across...
Seattle, WA — According to a Washington Post article, Washington has become the first state to sue Monsanto for pervasive pollution from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). PCBs were used in many industry and commercial applications, including paint, coolants and hydraulic fluids. Monsanto, St. Louis, MO, produced PCBs from 1935 until 1979,...
New Brunswick, NJ—Natreon Inc., the maker of Sensoril ashwagandha, based here, has filed a lawsuit against Ixoreal Biomed Inc., Los Angeles, CA, maker of KSM-66 ashwagandha and its parent company Shri Kartikeya Pharma, Ltd., Hyberadad, India, for false advertising, unfair competition and trade libel, among other counts. The complaint was...
Recent class action lawsuits for aloe vera products may have retailers rethinking the importance of third-party certification for the products that they sell—just ask CVS or Target. In June of this year, an Illinois plaintiff filed a class action lawsuit against CVS Health Corporation in U.S. District Court for the...
