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ARTICLE · 31 MAY 2019

Utz Resolves All Natural False Ad Claims For $1.2 Million

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Have you ever wanted to bust out exhaustive, detailed accounts of how cottonseed, corn, soybean and canola oil are processed?

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Have you ever wanted to bust out exhaustive, detailed accounts of how cottonseed, corn, soybean and canola oil are processed? How about the industrial derivations of vinegar, citric acid and various sorts of food additives?

Yes? Really? Well, have we got the lawsuit for you.

The case in question is a class action originally filed in 2014 by Matt Difrancesco, Angela Mizzoni and Lynn Marrapodi, consumers from Massachusetts and New York. The suit, filed in the District of Massachusetts, accused iconic snack producer Utz Quality Foods Inc. of falsely labeling scores of its products as "all natural."

Hence the lessons in canola oil pressing techniques.

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