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Prop 65 reforms proposed

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 8 2013

Our readers know how Prop 65 has created numerous issues for product sellers and created much litigation mischief in the hands of overzealous

Children’s nap mat maker to eliminate fire retardant

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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April 26 2013

An activist group announced on April 15, 2013, that it had reached a settlement in a case brought under California's Proposition 65, which requires

Dole targeted with “greenwashing” class action

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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November 30 2012

A putative class action alleging that Dole Food Co. misleads consumers by claiming it is an environmentally friendly and socially responsible company despite purportedly purchasing bananas from growers using pesticides in Guatemala has reportedly been filed in a California federal court

Testing lab owner sentenced to prison for falsifying results

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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September 28 2012

The owner of an environmental testing laboratory in Douglassville, Pennsylvania, has reportedly been sentenced by a federal court to nine months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that resulted in reporting false water test results

Environmentalists challenge GM potato trials in Ireland

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Ireland, USA
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August 31 2012

Following the Irish Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) decision to allow genetically modified (GM) potato trials in County Carlow, a group of environmentalists and organic producers reportedly mounted a legal challenge under the Aarhus Convention which allows environmental legal issues to be pursued under a “non-prohibitively expensive order.”

New lawsuits filed: “natural” orange juice, mislabeled butter, city vs. state in trans fat dispute, lack of FDA action on nanotechnology petition

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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January 13 2012

Putative class actions have been filed in New Jersey and California federal courts against Tropicana Products, Inc., alleging that the company misleads consumers by labeling and marketing its orange juice as “100 pure and natural,” when it actually “undergoes extensive processing which includes the addition of aromas and flavors.”

Claims rejected: deregulation of GE alfalfa, lead in fruit juice, MDL transfer of “all natural” Skinnygirl Margarita actions, U.S. Supreme Court review of $97.4-million Nicaraguan judgment in banana worker exposure to pesticides

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Nicaragua, USA
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January 13 2012

According to news sources, the Center for Food Safety, which lost its challenge to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) decision to deregulate without restriction genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, plans to appeal the matter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

JPML consolidates Wesson Oil actions before multidistrict litigation court

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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October 14 2011

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has consolidated six actions questioning the “100 Natural” claims for Wesson oil products before a multidistrict litigation (MDL) court in California

Failure-to-warn claims against tuna co. not preempted, says federal court

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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October 14 2011

Granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss in part, a federal court in New York has allowed further proceedings on most of the claims filed by a man who alleged that consuming one to two cans of tuna daily for more than two years caused his mercury poisoning

Sixth Circuit agrees that medical monitoring is not warranted for small risk of disease from chemical exposure

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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September 15 2011

Ohio, residents who were purportedly exposed to toxic chemicals, including dioxin, following a train derailment and fire that occurred in 2007 near the town

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