NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer face a proposed class action lawsuit that says claims about "natural" ChapStick ingredients are untrue.
Two women filed suit June 29 in New York federal court through lawyers at Clarkson Law Firm and Moon Law. They complain about claims like "100% Natural", "Naturally Sourced Ingredients" and "100% Naturally Sourced Ingredients."
Products in the ChapStick line actually contain artificial and/or highly processed ingredients, the suit says. Consumers are duped into buying products they think are all natural but actually contain a long list of questionable ingredients like citric acid, capryloyl glycerin/sebacic acid copolymer and octyldodecanol, the suit says.
"Plaintiffs and similarly situated consumers would not have purchased the Products, or would not have purchased the Products for as high a price, if they had known that the Challenged Representations were false and, therefore, the Products did not have the attribute claimed, promised, warranted, advertised, and represented," the suit says.
"Accordingly, based on Defendants’ material misrepresentations and omissions, reasonable consumers, including Plaintiffs, purchased the Products to their detriment."