On September 19, 2025, a national big-box retailer based on the east coast was threatened with a class action on the ground that its Keto Certified products contained ingredients that precluded their being labeled “Keto.” The Food Lawyers® were retained to defend the national retailer. We investigated the matter and determined that Plaintiff’s counsel did not understand the technical legal difference between unhydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil and fully hydrogenated soybean oil. The Food Lawyers explained the legal difference in these ingredients to plaintiff’s counsel and instructed him that the retailer’s use of hydrogenated soybean oil did not preclude Keto Certified labeling. Plaintiff abandoned its case without the payment of any settlement money.
