N.Y. Federal Judge Allows Fraud, GBL Claims Over Heavy Metals In Infant Formula

( August 21, 2026, 8:57 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Two New York mothers who allege in a putative class action that they unknowingly purchased infant formula that contained heavy metals can pursue fraud and state consumer protection claims against Mead Johnson & Company LLC after showing that the company “sought to capitalize on the mistaken beliefs of reasonable consumers about the health and quality” of the formula, a federal judge in New York said, but the judge ruled that their unjust enrichment claim should be dismissed as duplicative of their other claims....