Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Mar. 31, 2021
State DOJ must stop filing suits over acrylamide
The California Chamber of Commerce sued Attorney General Xavier Becerra in 2019, alleging the state was violating the First Amendment by requiring businesses to make statements about acrylamide dangers, when it did not have sufficient evidence that acrylamide causes cancer.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday banning the California attorney general and others from filing new lawsuits against businesses if they fail to display warnings about acrylamide, a common ingredient in coffee and other foods which is a carcinogen in large amounts according to some studies.
In California, businesses have been required to display these warnings since 1990, when the state added acrylamide to the l...
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