Coke: Wait, People Thought Vitaminwater Was Good for You?
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philp...-water-obesity
Back in 2009, the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Coca-Cola for making "deceptive and unsubstantiated" health claims about the products. In 2010, a US federal district court judge rejected Coca-Cola's motion to dismiss the suit (document here), noting that Coke's lawyers had made a remarkable argument: "At oral argument defendants suggested that no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage." In other words, no one actually believes our flashy marketing—it's obviously nonsense. The vitaminwater suit still hasn't been resolved, a CSPI spokesperson informed me.
If the government won't regulate charlatans and snake oil salesmen, will Public Interest groups have to do the job?
http://www.cspinet.org/canada/