Judge rules in Trader Joe’s chocolate lawsuit [Video]

A lawsuit accusing Trader Joe’s of failing to disclose that its dark chocolate products contain dangerous “heavy metals” was mostly dismissed by a judge on Wednesday.

The proposed class action lawsuit, which involved 17 law firms, argued that some of Trader Joe’s dark chocolate products contain unsafe amounts of lead and cadmium.

U.S. District Judge Ruth Bermudez Montenegro wrote in a decision that the lawsuit failed to prove that the grocery store products pose a safety hazard or are unsuitable to eat. 

The San Diego judge also found that “alleging that heavy metals can pose human health risks at some unidentified level does not mean the levels in [Trader Joe’s] products pose a human health risk.”

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