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Whole Foods is facing a lawsuit over mislabeling food items!
The Amazon-owned grocery chain just received a devastating blow in their ongoing mislabeling saga; a federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the company must face the legal challenge filed by Chandra Campbell. What is going on?!
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The class-action suit claims that Whole Foods duped customers into believing that its 365 Organic Honey Graham Crackers contain "honey and whole grains" as their main ingredients.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods cited a 2018 lawsuit over Cheez-Its being labeled as "whole grain," even though enriched white flour was the main ingredient. Yikes!
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"It is not implausible that consumers would understand the words on the box to say what they mean," Woods wrote.
The judge did acknowledge that he didn't previously know that "graham" referred to a specific type of flour. "This judge did not know that the 'graham' in graham cracker referred to a type of flour: The crackers might have been named after a famous person named Graham, in the way that Peach Melba and Melba Toast were named after an opera singer," he added.
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A spokesperson for the company declined to comment for Eat This, Not That!.
