Plaintiffs May Be Hard-Pressed In New Olive Oil Cases

By Claudia Vetesi, Lucia Roibal and Tim Kline (August 28, 2018, 2:40 PM EDT) -- On Aug. 2, 2018, two lawsuits were filed against Transnational Foods Inc. and J.M. Smucker Co. alleging that certain extra virgin olive oil, or EVOO, products were misleadingly labeled as EVOO when results from a "leading laboratory" "conclusively" established that the products were not in fact EVOO.[1] Because the laboratory tests allegedly concluded that the products were not EVOO, the plaintiffs claim that the defendants' representations that the products were EVOO were false....

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