Harmful Foods Lawsuits

Food Failures

What Is a Food Failure?

Food lawsuits are designed to help women/ moms who’ve learned the hard way they can no longer blindly trust the quality of food they feed their families, no matter who’s selling it.¹ This growing area of concern gives nurturers the opportunity to hold a wayward industry to account for harming those we lovingly feed, especially our babies and children. Corporate cruelty is particularly astonishing when decision makers know the inevitability of harm and still choose profits over people.

Heavy Metals in Baby Food

Allowing soaring levels of heavy metals – arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury – in baby food recipes may have placed countless little ones at risk. A comprehensive 2019 study, confirmed by a government subcommittee investigation in 2021, found that heavy metal contamination can lead to ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) and ASD (autism spectrum disorder) when bodies are most vulnerable.²

Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)

Using hard-to-digest cow’s milk as a base for premier baby formulas, hyped as similar to or “like mother’s milk,”³ raises risk of NEC especially in preemies and very low-birthweight newborns. NEC is a traumatic intestinal condition that strikes infants suddenly as they first begin taking food, other than mom’s milk, outside the womb. One in four cases ends in death.

Ultra-Processed Foods (UPCs)

Selling our kids empty, so-unhealthy calories packed with sugar and chemicals hikes the risk of cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and childhood obesity.^{4, 5} Because ultra-processed food is often sold in brightly packaged products with disarming “healthy” slogans, even the most discerning parents can be tricked into thinking they are are buying nutritious food when in fact they are buying foods that are not only unhealthy but also purposefully addictive.

As a dedicated voice for women and families, ACFW is all in when it comes to helping you bring lawsuits against giant corporate powers that served up risky fare and peddled it as “good for you.”

What Should You Expect from a Harmful Foods Lawsuit?

If you or your child suffered serious health problems (or heaven forbid, worse) from eating or drinking foods that can be harmful, we can help you pursue civil legal justice to take a stand against the entities that betrayed you and your family.

First, you may find these key points helpful:

The time allowed to file a food lawsuit depends on a state’s respective SOL (statute of limitations).This is the time between when you were medically diagnosed or began understanding you were unwell and when the time expires for you to have the ability to file a lawsuit. It varies per state and situation.

It also helps to understand what the potential outcomes may be in your lawsuit. Contact us to talk through any questions you have. The food attorneys we work with can also discuss your questions and help you get a feel for what to expect when you file a case.

In a civil lawsuit, jury rulings and settlements usually mean financial awards for survivors as a means of compensating avoidable suffering; civil cases can also leverage improvements in industry policies and standards, etc. Bottom line: the aim is to reverse a system that has long perpetuated food failures through loose regulation or self-regulation. That is why these cases matter.

How Does a Harmful Foods Lawsuit Work?

Civil lawsuits slap harsh financial punishment on industry wrongdoers.

We work with food lawyers whom we personally know and who operate on contingency. They’ll work with you to gather pertinent details, argue your case if it goes to trial (FYI: rare), and hammer out a settlement or seek a jury ruling in your favor.

Repeat: Achieving a successful result backs offending parties into a corner so they have no choice but to dramatically amend their protocols – which means your case will help to protect thousands more humans in future generations.

We Are Here For You.

A Case for Women and A Case for Justice have gone up against a host of BIG BADS to achieve financial reckoning and recognizable industry change for those harmed by unsafe/ toxic foods. No power is big enough to get away with neglecting human health, and food lawsuits were designed to make that point clear.

We are here to help you take action if you or your child received a crushing medical diagnosis (or worse) from ingesting unsafe food you were told was healthy. We’ve devoted ourselves to ending corporate recklessness at the highest levels.

ACFW wants to help you hold the food industry accountable. You did everything right – and someone still got hurt. Let us help you take the next step.

Tell Your Story

Sources

Tanita Northcott, Katherine Sievert, Cherie Russell, Abdul Obeid, Daniel Angus, and Christine Parker, “Unhealthy food advertising on social media: policy lessons from the Australian Ad Observatory,” NIH/ National Library of Medicine/ Oxford Journals, March 25, 2025.
Staff, “Report: What’s in My Baby’s Food?” Healthy Babies Bright Futures, 2019.
Staff, “What Is Necrotizing Enterocolitis,” and “Toward Earlier Detection of Necrotizing Enterocolitis,” Johns Hopkins Medicine, November 11, 2022.
Melissa M Lane, et al., “Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses,” BMJ/ British Medical Journal, February 25, 2024.
Shweta Watse, “Novel Case Aims to Make Ultra-Processed Food the New Tobacco,” Bloomberg Law, May 15, 2025.