As widely predicted, the plaintiff’s bar has turned its attention to the burgeoning CBD category with a series of lawsuits alleging that products contain “significantly lower levels of CBD than advertised.”
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As widely predicted, the plaintiff’s bar has turned its attention to the burgeoning CBD category with a series of lawsuits alleging that products contain “significantly lower levels of CBD than advertised.”
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The Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration for approving the use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and pesticide-intensive genetically engineered crops on national wildlife refuges.
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A lawsuit alleging that Nestlé USA is misleading shoppers with its ‘No GMO Ingredients’ seal has been allowed to proceed.
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The USDA announced the discovery of unapproved GMO wheat plants in Washington state and said there is no evidence that it had entered the food supply.
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A jury in California has awarded a couple $2 billion for Monsanto’s Roundup causing them cancer, the third legal victory of its kind.
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As a result of the Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit against the EPA’s approval of dozens of neonic pesticides, these bee-killing pesticides will be off the market next year.
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Bareburger, which sells organic burgers alongside the GMO Impossible Burger, is now facing a class action lawsuit for deceptive marketing.
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The USDA has been allowing hydroponics in organic — a complete violation of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990. This morning, Center for Food Safety filed a legal petition with the USDA to stop this from happening. We will be covering this development in much more detail in next week’s Organic Insider.
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A $1.5 billion class-action lawsuit settlement against Syngenta was approved by a Kansas federal judge, of which $503M will go to the lawyers.
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The dairy industry continues its attack on plant-based companies, with the target now being Miyoko’s Kitchen and its use of “butter” on its products.
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The German chemical giant wants the recent $289M glyphosate verdict overturned and is seeking a new trial.
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The Organic Consumers Association has sued the restaurant chain Pret a Manger because some of its “natural” food products have tested positive for glyphosate.
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A detailed look into what is going with the lawsuit that the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Environmental Health have filed against the USDA for failing to enact federal GMO-labeling standards.
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The Center for Food Safety has filed a motion for summary judgment on its federal lawsuit against the USDA for failing to issue the GMO food disclosure law by the mandatory deadline of July 29, 2018.
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The Cornucopia Institute sent a formal request to antitrust regulators asking them to scrutinize the sale of Hain Celestial’s organic/natural poultry division, claiming that, depending on who acquires it, the effect could harm competition in the already highly concentrated organic poultry sector.
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Barely alive, David Johnson is the first of 800 victims to sue Monsanto for causing him cancer.
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The Cornucopia Institute just released a formal request to antitrust regulators asking them to scrutinize Tyson Foods’ acquisition of organic poultry brand Smart Chicken, claiming it will irreparably harm competition in the sector.
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Nutiva founder/CEO and hemp pioneer John Roulac discusses the pending legislation in Congress which would legalize industrial hemp farming and what it would mean for the industry.
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A federal judge said he lacked jurisdiction in the case over a change to the USDA’s Sunset Rule, which now makes it harder to remove synthetic ingredients from organic.
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Using internal correspondence within Monsanto, a plaintiff in California is contending that Monsanto knew for decades that its weedkiller product was carcinogenic.
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A federal lawsuit has been filed against the EPA and Monsanto over the approval of Monsanto’s XtendiMax weedkiller, which puts hundreds of endangered species at risk.
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Because of the damage that dicamba has caused, which has forced farmers to purchase Monsanto’s GMO-corn and soybean seeds, a treble damages class action suit has been filed against the company.
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A lawsuit against the retailer claims that it sold organic eggs laid by hens raised in enclosed structures when the package labels said the birds had access to the outdoors.
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Promoting its tea as “all natural”, Bigelow is now facing a class action lawsuit because the product contained cancer-causing glyphosate.
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