Wegmans Wins Dismissal Of Class Suit Over Amount Of Vanilla Bean In Ice Cream

Mealey's (July 16, 2020, 7:12 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Use of a mass spectrometry analysis of vanilla ice cream to support allegations by plaintiffs in a class complaint that the ice cream was being falsely advertised as vanilla while the flavoring was coming from non-vanilla bean sources was insufficient to support the claims, a federal judge in New York ruled July 14, granting a grocery store chain’s motion to dismiss (Quincy Steele, et al. v. Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., No. 19-9227, S.D. N.Y., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 123637)....