[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/food-police-nutella-forced-to-pay-3-5-million-to-people-who-confused-it-with-health-food\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/food-police-nutella-forced-to-pay-3-5-million-to-people-who-confused-it-with-health-food\/","headline":"Nutella Forced to Pay $3.5 Million to People Who Confused it With Health Food","name":"Nutella Forced to Pay $3.5 Million to People Who Confused it With Health Food","description":"Surprise surprise: spreadable chocolate, while quite tasty, is not particularly good for your health. The &#8220;victims&#8221; in this case have filed suit in California, where the manufacturer of Nutella has been forced, thanks to fears of the food police, to settle for $3.5 Million to the trial lawyers. The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Mike Brownfield writes: This latest example of the U.S. legal system run wild comes to us from California where two mothers filed suit against\u00a0Ferrero...","datePublished":"2012-05-04","dateModified":"2014-06-18","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/author\/bendom\/#Person","name":"Benjamin Domenech, The Heartland Institute","url":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/author\/bendom\/","identifier":39,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c189aa51b7d4d74f57143ae0406de7dbb2acce267efda5aeb416e462b7875fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c189aa51b7d4d74f57143ae0406de7dbb2acce267efda5aeb416e462b7875fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Consumer Insurance Guide","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/consumer-insurance-guide-logo.png","url":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/consumer-insurance-guide-logo.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NUTELLA1.jpg","url":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NUTELLA1.jpg","height":2592,"width":2662},"url":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/food-police-nutella-forced-to-pay-3-5-million-to-people-who-confused-it-with-health-food\/","about":["Health"],"wordCount":288,"keywords":["false advertising and healthy foods","lawsuits regarding false advertising of healthy products","menu","the food police and requirements by the Obama Adminstration labeling of nutrition information on foods"]},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Health","item":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nutella Forced to Pay $3.5 Million to People Who Confused it With Health Food","item":"https:\/\/consumerinsuranceguide.com\/health\/food-police-nutella-forced-to-pay-3-5-million-to-people-who-confused-it-with-health-food\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]