Tuesday 26 Aug/2025 – 12:31 am
Kraft, Mondelliz, Coca -Cola and a number of major food industries companies succeeded in overcoming a controversial lawsuit, which had accused them of manufacturing high -treatment foods targeting children and leading to addiction and chronic diseases, according to Reuters.
Major food companies exceed a lawsuit for highly processed foods in America
The federal judge, Mia Perez of the Philadelphia Court, issued a ruling to reject the lawsuit filed by Price Martinez, a young man from the city said that he was a person with type 2 diabetes and non -alcoholic fatty liver at the age of sixteen, after years of consuming the products of those companies, but the court considered that the prosecutor did not succeed in identifying any specific products of the hundreds of the types that were attributed to it, which was considered a legal vulnerability Basic.
The case sparked widespread attention as it was described as a legal test to try to hold food companies a responsibility similar to what happened with tobacco companies decades ago, when she was charged with concealing the health risks of their products and deliberately promoting them for small generations.
In his lawsuit, Martinez referred to more than 100 products, including famous snacks such as Doritus and Oreo biscuits, but he failed to provide direct evidence of his consumption of her specifically.
Although the definition of highly treated foods is still the subject of scientific debate, many researchers believe that the term applies to a large number of packed food commodities and soft drinks made of ingredients extracted or industrial treatment.
