How Marketers Trick Kids, and Why Parents Should Worry
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
In January 2013, a federal district court threw out a class-action lawsuit against Citrus World Inc. for allegedly mislabeling its Florida’s Natural products as “100% orange juice” when the product is actually “heavily processed, stored and flavored.” U.S. District Judge Inge Prytz decided that the plaintiff didn’t suffer any injury from buying the orange juice and so the lawsuit should not go on. (Veal v. Citrus World Inc., Case No. 12-cv-0801, N. D. AL.)
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
TINA.org pulls back the covers on this company’s Made in USA marketing.
Brand partnerships worthy of a big “doom!”
Derek Kravitz, Consumer Reports
Here were some of the worst ads TINA.org investigated this year.