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ARTICLE · 23 SEPTEMBER 2018

Kombucha Kase Krumbles

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As a Brooklyn resident, I immediately paid attention to news about four lawsuits involving formerly hippie and now hipster beverage kombucha.

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As a Brooklyn resident, I immediately paid attention to news about four lawsuits involving formerly hippie and now hipster beverage kombucha.  (For the uncool and uninitiated, kombucha is a fermented beverage, made with tea, sugar, and a culture called a SCOBY, which looks like a big mushroom.  People -- other than yours truly -- love the stuff and attribute various health benefits to it.) 

Back in April, Tortilla Factory, maker of the Kombucha Dog brand beverage, sued four competitors, alleging that their beverages are mislabeled with respect to alcohol and sugar content.  Plaintiff alleged that it tested the alcohol content in the competitors' products and determined that their alcohol levels exceeded the .5% threshold necessitating a health warning statement under Alcoholic Beverage Labeling Act of 1988.  Plaintiff also alleged the competitors' labels understated the sugar content of their drinks.

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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