Singletary v. Department of Health & Human Services

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• dismissing plaintiffs’ claim that defendant’s “all natural” representations were misleading because defendant’s ingredients were allegedly “unnatural,” where plaintiff failed to plausibly allege that the ingredients were in fact unnatural
• discussing lack of a common understanding of the term “all natural” that is shared by reasonable consumers
• dismissing claim that an “All Natural” label constituted a claim for negligent misrepresentation where the label was placed above an ingredients list that identified unnatural ingredients
• observing in dismissing a challenge to “All Natural” pasta that “the reasonable consumer is aware that Buitoni Pastas are not springing fully-formed from Ravioli trees and Tortellini bushes”
• dismissing consumer deception claims based on pasta’s label that stated “All Natural” reasoning “the reasonable consumer is aware that Buitoni Pastas are not springing fully-formed from Ravioli trees and Tortellini bushes” (internal quotation marks omitted
• “Because of resource limitations and other agency priorities, FDA is not undertaking rulemaking to establish a definition for ‘natural’ at this time.”

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