SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - Bayer's One a Day natural fruit bites contain synthetic ingredients, a new class action lawsuit says.
Edison Corpuz and lawyers at Reese LLP filed the suit July 25 in San Diego federal court, alleging class members paid a premium for a product they expected to be all natural. The suit claims violation of the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act.
The case makes the argument some of the ingredients are synthetic, like cholecalciferol, niacinamide, pyridoxine hydrochloride and D-biotin, among others.
"Consumers would not know the true nature of the ingredients merely by reading the ingredients label. This is because the ingredient list does not disclose the manufacturing process for each ingredient," the suit says.
"Discovering that the ingredients are not natural and are actually synthetic requires a scientific investigation and knowledge of chemistry beyond that the everyday knowledge of the average consumer.
"This is why, even though the ingredients listed above are identified on the back of the Products’ packaging in the ingredients list, the reasonable consumer would not understand – nor are they expected to understand - that these ingredients are synthetic."