The Girl Scouts has been sued by consumers over the alleged presence of “heavy metals” and pesticides in its popular Thin Mints and other cookies.
A proposed class action was filed on Monday night in Brooklyn, NY, federal court against the 113-year-old nonprofit and the cookies’ licensed producers, ABC Bakers and Ferrero USA’s Little Brownie Bakers.
It cited a December 2024 study commissioned by GMO Science and Moms Across America , which tested samples of 25 cookies from three states.
The study said Girl Scout cookies contained at least four of five heavy metals — aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury — that can harm people’s health or the environment, often at levels exceeding regulators’ recommended limits…