June 06, 2025
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.
March 06, 2025
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."
May 08, 2024
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.
September 11, 2023
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.
February 02, 2023
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.
December 20, 2022
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.
September 22, 2022
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.