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Kellogg’s defeats lawsuit over Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tarts

2022.06.03 17:36

Kellogg's defeats lawsuit over Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tarts
FILE PHOTO: The entrance sign to Kellogg Co. is pictured at the Porter Street plant in Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S., December 11, 2021. REUTERS/Emily Elconin

By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Kellogg (NYSE:K) Co of defrauding consumers about the content of its Frosted Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tarts, one of several lawsuits challenging how it markets its toaster pastries.

In a Thursday decision, U.S. District Judge James Shadid in Peoria, Illinois, rejected plaintiff Roberta Reinitz’s claim that Kellogg’s labeling, including an image showing a chunk of fudge, violated federal and state consumer protection laws.

Reinitz, of Chatsworth, Illinois, said she would not have bought the Pop-Tarts or would have paid less for them had she known they contained no milk and butter, or milkfat, which she called “essential to fudge.”

But the judge said Reinitz failed to show that reasonable consumers would expect fudge to contain milkfat, or that “a chocolate-tasting fudge product made from oils and whey would mislead a reasonable consumer.”

In seeking a dismissal, lawyers for Kellogg said milk and butter were not the “defining ingredients” of fudge.

They also said “fudge” referred to the Pop-Tarts’ flavor, and that a reasonable consumer “would interpret it to mean that the product tastes like chocolate (which it does).”

Reinitz’s lawyer Spencer Sheehan has filed many lawsuits concerning the content of various foods.

He said on Friday he is reviewing Shadid’s decision and has not decided how to proceed. Kellogg and its lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

At least three federal judges in Illinois and New York have this year dismissed lawsuits filed by Sheehan claiming that Kellogg did not use enough strawberries in its frosted or unfrosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts.

The case is Reinitz v Kellogg Sales Co, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois, No. 21-01239.

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