Lindt Chocolate Class Action Lawsuit Update

Send this to your friends who buy Lindt dark chocolate like me, because a class

action lawsuit was just pushed forth against them by a judge alleging numerous

violations of consumer laws, including false advertising,

safety hazard,

design defect. And it's because they found significant

levels of lead and

cadmium in these products and allegedly have known about this since

twenty-fourteen. Here were some of Lindt's defenses in court,

so you know how a

company thinks. First, they said, "It's not false advertising because we

never said

there's no lead, there's no cadmium in this product." To

which the judge said, "It

doesn't matter because you said all of these things, which would imply to a

reasonable consumer that there would be no toxic heavy metals

in this product."

Well, in defense of all of this, Lindt said,

"That is just inactionable puffery,"

meaning these are claims that are so exaggerated

that no reasonable consumer would

rely on them to buy a product. To which the court said, "No, that

is not true.

A reasonable consumer would see this advertising and again expect a premium

product and at the very least, an absence of toxic metal."

But then Lindt says,

"Wait, nobody's actually proven to be injured

directly from eating our chocolate."

To which the court said, "We don't have to wait to prove

that someone got cancer

from your chocolate in order to declare it a safety hazard." Because the judge

says, "A reasonable consumer would not have paid

a premium for your product if they

knew it had these metals in it." Which is why the class action is going forward,

asking for payment for anyone who bought this chocolate.

You know I'll keep you updated on any settlement.