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Article: Makers of Splenda Continue to Use Legal System to Hide Truth; Retaliates Against Sugar Association by Reviving Lawsuit, Group Says
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 28, 2006
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LOS ANGELES, June 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- McNeil Nutritionals, a
subsidiary of behemoth Johnson & Johnson, has filed a counter- suit
to again try to silence the Sugar Association's efforts to raise
consumer awareness about McNeil's false and deceptive advertising of
the artificial sweetener Splenda.
In March, a United States District Court in Wilmington, Del.,
dismissed a lawsuit brought by McNeil Nutritionals against the Sugar
Association and its member companies. The lawsuit claimed that the
Sugar Association and its members had engaged in false advertising in
connection with a Web site established by the Sugar Association --
http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com. That Web site publishes ...