A class action which contends that children’s cold and flu products sold by a 100-year-old California homeopathic remedy company are nothing more than “flavored water” has been certified by a California federal judge.
U.S. District George King, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, recently granted nationwide class status to Enzo Forcellati v. Hyland’s Inc. In the complaint, plaintiff Forcellati identifies six cold and flu products for children—including Cold ‘n Cough 4 Kids and Complete Flu Care 4 Kids—sold by Hyland’s Inc. as “nothing more than sweetened, flavored water with … highly diluted concentrations of the products’ so-called ‘active ingredients.’” It alleges that improvements in children’s symptoms after ingesting the products are nothing more than the “placebo effect.”
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