Will Coca-Cola's vitaminwater be the Consumer Protection Act's first scalp?
Local consumer rights advocates say the Consumer Protection Act, due to be enforced from October 2010, could make way for a South African legal class action suit against Coca-Cola for misleading claims on its Glacéau vitaminwater.
27 Aug 2010
The Coca-Cola Company is taking a beating in the US, where a federal judge gave a public interest group the green light to continue with a class action lawsuit against the beverage giant's glacéau vitamin water.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) brought the legal action against Coca-Cola for what it called "deceptive and unsubstantiated claims" on vitaminwater. The health and food safety advocacy group will now take Coca-Cola to court because it markets vitamin water as a healthy alternative to soda, using claims that the CSPI says are fraudulent.
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