Mars Dove Cocoa Supply Deception Suit Dismissal Gets Affirmed

A consumer alleging Mars Wrigley Confectionery US LLC misleads customers about Dove Dark Chocolate products’ supply chain failed to get her claims revived after a federal appeals court affirmed dismissal Monday.

Lori Myers alleged a label stating the products’ cocoa was from “Rainforest Alliance Certified farms” deceived her into thinking the chocolates were made without child slave labor or exacerbating rainforest deforestation.

• But the label “does not represent the Rainforest Alliance Certified farms avoid deforestation and the use of child labor,” the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in an unpublished opinion
• The label means consumers “might ...