Protein Powder False Advertising Class Action Lawsuits Allege Protein Spiking

Consumers are filing protein powder false advertising lawsuits , claiming companies use “protein spiking” to show their products as higher in proteins than they actually are.

Several protein powder manufacturers have already been involved in protein powder false advertising allegations. Protein powder products that may have been affected by protein spiking or other false advertising methods include the following:

• Core Formulations Core 8 & IsoCore
• Rogue Nutrition Rogue Whey
• BioHealth Nutrition Precision Blend & Precision Iso

Protein Powder False Advertising

Protein spiking is a practice used to register products at a higher level of protein than they actually contain. Companies do this by including nitrogen-rich additives, such as amino acids, to their protein powder supplements. Protein manufacturers may also use blatantly false claims on their products.

Protein Powder False Advertising Class Action Lawsuits

Core Formulations and BioHealth have already been hit with a protein powder false advertising lawsuit, which alleges that their protein powder products contain far less protein than the companies advertise, leading to their false advertising claims.

According to the protein powder false advertising lawsuit, Core Formulations, BioHealth, and Rogue Nutrition used several allegedly false advertising methods including protein spiking and mislabeling products in order to take advantage of their consumers and maximize their profits.

An independent lab performed tests on the protein powder products from these companies, which showed substantial differences in the amount of protein contained in the products from these companies.

According to the plaintiffs, Rogue Nutrition Rogue Whey contains 19.7 grams rather than 28 grams of protein; Core Formulations contains 20.4 grams instead of 31 grams; and BioHealth Precision Iso contains 17.5 grams rather than 27 grams.

The protein powder false advertising lawsuit alleges that Core Formulations not only uses protein spiking to show a higher amount of protein, but also uses labeling to falsely advertise their product’s protein content. For instance, the Core Formulations Core 8 protein powder shows this convincing message on its label: “NO PROTEIN SPIKING!! NO useless AMINO spikes like ‘Amino Acid Complex’ or ‘Taurine’. ONLY 100% WHEY PROTEIN.”

Protein powder products like these do not come cheap. A 2 lb container of these products can range from $49.99 to $59.99, but consumers believe that they are paying for a protein product with significantly more protein than it actually contains.

In fact, had plaintiffs known about the true protein content of the product—that the product he purchased contained less protein than the label itself claimed—they say they would not have paid the premium price for the product, or they would not have purchased it at all.

According to the protein powder false advertising class action lawsuit, Core Formulation “knew, or should have known, at the time that they made these claims, that the claims were false and untrue.”

If you have purchased protein powder from Core Formulations or one of these other companies, you may be able to file a protein powder lawsuit or class action lawsuit.

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If you purchased any of the protein powders listed below, you may qualify to file a protein powder lawsuit or protein spiking class action lawsuit.

• Core Formulations Core 8 & IsoCore
• Rogue Nutrition Rogue Whey
• BioHealth Nutrition Precision Blend & Precision Iso

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