General Mills Consumers Want Fruit Snack Label Deal Approved

Consumers alleging General Mills Inc. duped them into thinking various fruit flavored snacks were made with no artificial flavors urged a California federal court to preliminarily approve a settlement that would require marketing changes for about 150 products.

The settlement doesn’t offer money damages but nonetheless provides meaningful injunctive relief for a nationwide settlement class, the plaintiffs told the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California Sept. 4 in an unopposed motion for tentative approval.

Crystal Hilsley, Adrienne Morris, and others alleged numerous General Mills fruit-flavored snack products and Mott’s fruit flavored snacks products made by General Mills ...