A federal judge refused to dismiss a class action accusing ConAgra Foods of deceptively marketing its Parkay Spray by using artificially small serving sizes to claim servings contain zero calories and zero fat, though each bottle allegedly contains 832 calories and 93 grams of fat.
Read moreReviving a federal class action over healthful branding that appears on boxes of Cheez-Its, the Second Circuit found Tuesday that the “whole grain” slogan could mislead consumers.
Read moreA Los Angeles city councilman said Wednesday he will introduce a motion requiring all concession stands at LAX, the LA Zoo, movie theaters, and all city-owned parks and entertainment venues to offer at least one “vegan protein option.” Councilman Paul Koretz said that encouraging a “plant-based diet” could help curb global warming.
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Campbell Soup Company is facing a shareholder class action after the company racked up millions in operating losses in its
Read moreLos Angeles made street vending legal Wednesday, after city officials approved a new licensing program to regulate the selling of food on sidewalks citywide.
Read moreThe average American family wastes nearly a third of the food they buy – the equivalent of 250 pounds of food per person annually – according to a survey released Monday, just in time to rethink the handling of Thanksgiving leftovers.
Read moreA class of consumers says FGF Brands falsely claimed that its Stonefire naan products were baked in a traditional tandoor oven, when they were actually mass-produced in a commercial conveyor-belt oven system.
Read moreIn a hilly, northeast community of Los Angeles, a giant chicken statue towers over taquerias and elote vendors along Figueroa Avenue – the historically Latino commercial avenue in Highland Park that has evolved in recent years to satisfy the tastes and desires of new residents of a neighborhood in flux.
Read moreA trove of documents implicating junk food companies in disease and linking them to the tobacco industry unveiled at the University of California, San Francisco, on Thursday could drive new legislation and litigation limiting the availability of unhealthy foods, some experts say.
Read morePutting the kibosh on a case involving Dutch cream cheese, Europe’s highest court ruled Tuesday that the taste of a food product is not eligible for copyright protection.
Read moreNew research strengthens the case that people used the chocolate ingredient cacao in South America 5,400 years ago, underscoring the seed’s radical transformation into today’s Twix bars and M&M candies.
Read moreA class claims in court that Unilever falsely labels its I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter cooking spray as containing zero calories and zero grams of fat, though it contains 1,160 calories and 124 grams of fat per 12-ounce bottle, by using unreasonably small serving sizes.
Read moreCanned tuna giant StarKist agreed Thursday to plead guilty to a single felony count of price-fixing. It faces a criminal fine of up to $100 million.
Read moreDespite grim news about climate change, a new study indicates certain shifts in what food we consume and how we handle food waste could make feeding the world sustainable in the coming decades.
Read moreBritain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling and ruled that a bakery owned by a Christian family didn’t discriminate against a gay customer when it refused to make a cake bearing a slogan supporting same-sex marriage.
Read moreA federal class action claims Starbucks misrepresents that its white chocolate drinks, including the Toasted White Chocolate Doubleshot Energy Drink, contain white chocolate.
Read moreA Nevadan claims in a federal complaint that he was one of 57 people in 16 states who contracted Salmonella Newport poisoning this summer from 6.9 million pounds of contaminated beef provided by Phoenix-based JBS Tolleson Inc.
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