Happy Baby Organic Class Action Alleging Toxic Heavy Metals Consolidated in New York

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Happy Baby Organic Class Action Lawsuit Overview: 

• Who: A federal judge consolidated class action lawsuits lodged against Nurture, Inc, the maker of Happy Baby Organic baby food. 
• Why: The judge consolidated 17 separate class action lawsuits against Nurture alleging the company manufactured baby food containing an unsafe amount of toxic heavy metals. 
• Where: The class action lawsuits are pending New York federal court. 

A federal judge in New York consolidated 17 class action lawsuits filed against Nurture Inc. that allege the company manufactured its Happy Baby Organic brand of baby food with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals. 

The consolidation will only be for personal consumer protection claims against the company, U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil ruled on Wednesday. Personal injury claims resulting from consuming the allegedly unsafe baby foods will be consolidated in a separate class action lawsuit.

Report Claims Toxins in Happy Baby Organic, Other Major Baby Food Brands

The class action lawsuits were filed after a February report by the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform found Nurture’s baby food contained higher than safe levels of toxic heavy metals such as cadmium, lead, mercury, and arsenic. 

All of the class action lawsuits filed against Nurture cite the House Committees report, including that of lead plaintiff Nicole Stewart, according to Law360.

Baby foods produced by Gerber, Plum, Hain, Sprout Foods, and Walmart were also mentioned in the report as having “significant levels,” of the toxic heavy metals. Class action lawsuits related to the house committee’s findings have also been filed against these companies. 

Plaintiff Tyler Baker, who filed a class action lawsuit against Walmart earlier this month, claimed the company failed to warn or disclose to customers the toxic heavy metal content of its baby food.

“Based on Walmart’s product labeling and marketing materials, [they] did not expect, and no reasonable consumer would have expected, that any of Walmart’s baby food products contained Toxic Heavy Metals at unsafe levels,” Baker’s class action lawsuit states. 

Are you concerned about your infant’s health after purchasing baby food from Nurture or another brand named in the House Committees report? Let us know in the comments! 

The plaintiffs are represented by Stephanie Egner Smith of Roberts Law Firm US, PC, William E. Hoese, Douglas A. Abrahams, Craig W. Hillwig, Barbara Gibson, and Aarthi Manohar of Kohn, Swift, & Graf, P.C., David H. Fink and Nathan J. Fink of Fink Bressack, James Aliaga, Michael M. Liskow, and Janine Lee Pollack of Calcaterra Pollack LLP, and Lori G. Feldman of George Gesten McDonald PLLC. 

The Nurture Baby Food Class Action Lawsuit is Stewart v. Nurture Inc., Case No. 1:21-cv-0121, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The Walmart Baby Food Class Action Lawsuit is Baker v. Walmart, Inc., Case No. 3:21-cv-00182, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

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