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Barnett et al v. The Kroger Company et al

  1. June 06, 2025

    Kroger-Owned Grocery Escapes Baby Food Metal Claims

    Harris Teeter escaped a proposed class action against parent Kroger and other grocery stores alleging that their Simple Truth baby teething wafers contain unsafe levels of toxic metals, according to a Friday order.

  2. March 06, 2025

    Kroger Can't Escape Baby Food Metal Claims

    An Ohio federal judge on Wednesday allowed consumers' claims to go forward in a proposed class action against Kroger and other grocery stores alleging that their Simple Truth baby teething wafers contain unsafe levels of toxic metals, saying the allegations didn't amount to a "shotgun pleading."

  3. May 08, 2024

    Kroger Must Keep Fighting Metal-Tainted Baby Food Claims

    An Ohio federal judge Wednesday refused to throw out a proposed class action accusing the Kroger Co. and its subsidiaries of selling baby food tainted with toxic metals, ruling that the mothers who sued have plausibly alleged that they wouldn't have purchased the product had they known the truth.

  4. September 11, 2023

    Kroger Beats Claims Of Metal-Tainted Baby Food, For Now

    An Ohio federal judge on Monday agreed to toss a proposed class action accusing the Kroger Co. and its subsidiaries of selling baby food tainted with toxic metals, saying the parents failed to show the grocers knew of the contamination while leaving the door open for them to amend their claims.

  5. February 02, 2023

    Moms Slam Dismissal Bid In Toxic Baby Food Class Action

    The parents who accused the Kroger Co. and its subsidiaries of selling them baby food laced with toxic heavy metals told an Ohio federal judge that the grocer's bid to toss their proposed class action was premature in parts and flatly wrong in others.

  6. December 20, 2022

    Kroger Says Baby Food Metal Levels Are For FDA, Not Courts

    Kroger asked an Ohio federal judge Monday to toss a putative class action alleging it sells baby food containing naturally occurring heavy metals, arguing the issue of safe contamination levels shouldn't be decided by various courts but by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which has already begun its analysis.

  7. September 22, 2022

    Kroger Accused of Selling Toxic Metal-Laced Baby Food

    Parents from three states launched proposed class claims that said baby food distributed and sold by the Kroger Co. contained harmful levels of heavy metals and that they were misled because such information was not on the packaging.