
Pringles® Salt and Vinegar Chips
Allegations: Falsely marketing products as containing “No Artificial Flavors”
Melton et al. v. Kellogg Co.
16-cv-1923, E.D. Mo.
(Nov. 2016)
Kellogg’s Fruit Snacks
Deceptively using You know when you buy a big bag of chips, and you’re all psyched for a feast, and then it turns out there are like, three chips in the bag? That bag is slack filled.ed packaging
Voluntarily dismissed When a complaint is dismissed without prejudice, an amended version of the complaint can be refiled.
Allegations: Falsely marketing products as containing “No Artificial Flavors”
Allegations: Misleadingly including strawberries in photographs on the front of cereal boxes when the products don’t contain any strawberries
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing the ingredients in bars
Allegations: Falsely marketing products as “veggie”
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing ingredients in crackers
Allegations: Cereals contain less protein than advertised
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as “Made With Wildflower Honey” when honey is not the predominant sweetening ingredient
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing the ingredients in breakfast bars
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing bars as “Cranberry Almond”
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing the filling as strawberry when it contains significant amounts of other fruits in addition to strawberries
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing that the product contains fudge when it is missing ingredients essential to fudge and contains ingredients that are not found in fudge
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing that the only fruit ingredient is strawberries
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing the ingredients used in the fruit filling and as the primary sweetener in products
Allegations: Failing to disclose chips contain harmful ingredients and misleadingly marketing chips as containing evaporated cane juice when they actually contain sugar
Allegations: Deceptively marketing breakfast cereals as healthy when they contain high amounts of sugar
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing the ingredients that are in the filling of Kashi bars
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