Los Angeles, CA—Lawyers are filing a class action complaint against Mrs. Gooch’s Natural Food Markets, Inc., dba Whole Foods Market, alleging that the company failed to provide their employees with meal and rest breaks required by California law. The lawsuit, case number 19STCV26728, was filed by lawyers at Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik...
Parent company of LaCroix sparkling water, National Beverage Corp., is facing a lawsuit that alleges its product contains non-natural and synthetic compounds, which would be opposite of how the company markets the drink. The class action lawsuit was filed on Oct. 1 by Beaumont Costales, a Chicago law firm, on...
Washington, D.C. - A U.S. district judge has given the green light to a lawsuit that claims that Monsanto’s labeling of its flagship weed killer Roundup misleads consumers, according to this report. The judge ruled against Monsanto Co.’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, filed in April, 2017. The judge ruled that...
Washington, D.C. - Two major animal rights groups have joined the Organic Trade Association’s (OTA) court battle against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) failure to enact new organic livestock standards. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) are now co-plaintiffs...
Washington, D.C. - The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) is fighting back against a private litigant’s claim that a dietary supplement company falsely advertised the benefits of its product. CRN, trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, submitted an amicus brief to the United States Court of...
New York, NY — The term “diet” has been used by soft drink companies to describe sugar-free and low calorie options for many years. The Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 states that companies may continue provided that "use of the term is not false or misleading.” On Oct. 16,...
Tualatin, OR — The Campbell Soup acquisition of Pacific Foods is in question as a legal battle has ensued following the death of Ed Lynch, co-founder of the organic foods company. The suit was filed by Ed Lynch’s estate. Michael Lynch, one of Ed Lynch’s four children, is acting as...
Los Angeles, CA – Ixoreal Biomed Inc., the manufacturer of KSM-66 ashwagandha extract, has expanded a suit against Sensoril producer Natreon and its distributor NutraGenesis, claiming false patent marking, defamation, product disparagement and tortious interference. The new claims this week are on top of an earlier countersuit Ixoreal Biomed filed...
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...
