Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bags of potato chips are often far bigger than they need to be for the product they contain.Irina Marwan/Getty Images Slack-fill ...

As we have been reporting, food-product makers have been the subject of various types of unfair advertising or competition claims, including those based upon the assertion that a product packaging ...

As we reported last year, slack fill litigation remains on the rise. Plaintiffs continue to file consumer lawsuits – typically putative class actions – alleging food packaging is deceptive because it ...

The scene is familiar: you open a bag of chips that looks generous, you stick your hand in... and suddenly, the feeling that you've paid for half a bag of.... NOTHING. That "emptiness" has a name in ...

In fact, food marketing class actions increased from less than 20 in 2008 to nearly 100 in federal courts in 2015. The most recent example is a lawsuit slapped on Pret A Manger for “slack-filling” ...

Meghana Shah and Melissa Conrad-Alam of Eversheds Sutherland (US) write: Early slack fill complaints have been met with resistance. Courts have dismissed many complaints out of hand for failure to ...

Slack-fill describes the empty space in a packet, such as the air in a bag of potato chips. Slack-fill can be deemed illegal if it's not functional. Halo Top, Mondelez, and Whole Foods have all been ...