A judge has dismissed a federal class action lawsuit alleging Berlin-based IA Nutrition Inc. used misleading labels on its nutrition supplements.
IA Nutrition Inc. was sued in November in the U.S. District for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff, a San Francisco man who had purchased IA’s dietary supplements containing whey protein, alleged that the products’ labels stated higher amounts of protein than the products actually contained.
The suit alleged that IA was “protein spiking,” or adding non-protein materials in order to increase the nitrogen content of the products. Nitrogen is used as a tag to measure protein levels in products, but the plaintiff, who said he had the products independently tested, argued it was not an accurate measure.
Other companies have been sued for similar practices, according to Forbes.
Products mentioned in the IA suit included Mass Peak, Nitro Peak, Whey Protein LMS and Super Quad Protein.
In a ruling last week granting IA’s motion to dismiss, a judge said the IA’s calculations of protein content conformed with U.S. Food & Drug Administration regulations.
Andrew Esposito, IA’s chief operating officer, said in a statement that the company was pleased the suit was dismissed.
“As we stated in our response to this lawsuit, all of our Inner Armour product labels meet FDA guidelines and we believe we are in full compliance with federal requirements for both testing and labeling,” Esposito said.
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