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  1. Consumer-impact summary
  2. Incidents
  3. Hiding How Much Carcinogenic Food Coloring in Products
  4. Pepsico in Collaboration with Walmart Rigged Prices
  5. Pepsico Exposes Lead to Customers without prior knowledge
  6. Ran Campaigns Lying to Consumers about Environmental Benefits
  7. Pepsi Runs Misleading Ad-Campaign to give away a Harrier 2 Jet
  8. Products
  9. See also
  10. References

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PepsiCo
Basic information
Founded 1898-08-28
Legal Structure Public
Industry Beverage, Food processing
Also known as
Official website https://www.pepsico.com

PepsiCo, Inc., is an American food and beverage corporation.

Consumer-impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

  • User Freedom
  • User Privacy
  • Business Model
  • Market Control

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Incidents

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the PepsiCo category.

Hiding How Much Carcinogenic Food Coloring in Products

Pepsico Twitter Post

Thamar Santisteban Cortina sued Pepsico and Goya Foods in January 2014 over the product Pepsi, Pepsi One, and Diet Pepsi, containing excessive amount of 4-methylimidazole (which can cause severe health risks like cancer) without properly informing consumers. [1][2][3]

Pepsico in Collaboration with Walmart Rigged Prices

Main article: PepsiCo sued by FTC for rigging Soft Drink Competition

On ---, Federal Trade Commision filed a lawsuit against Pepsico and Walmart for allegedly doing a price fixing scheme that allowed Walmart to sell Pepsi products at lower prices than its competitors. [4][5]

Pepsico Exposes Lead to Customers without prior knowledge

On April 21, 2006, the People of the State of California filed a lawsuit against Pepsico over violating the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. Mexico Pepsi and West Jefferson Mountain Dew failed to warn Californian consumers of their products containing lead and cadmium. [6]

PepsiCo pep+ program strategy

Ran Campaigns Lying to Consumers about Environmental Benefits

The People of the State of California (through Los Angeles County) filed a lawsuit against Pepsico and Coca-Cola on 2024 over misleading consumers with a disinformation campaign designed to make consumers believe that their products are environmental friendly.[7][8]

Pepsi Runs Misleading Ad-Campaign to give away a Harrier 2 Jet

In March of 1996 pepsi began the "Pepsi Stuff" advertising campaign, which claimed that you could redeem "pepsi-points" for a variety of things including and up to a Harrier 2 jet. When John Leonard produced enough points to purchase the Jet, they balked, and Leonard decided to pursue a lengthy legal campaign against Pepsi for the false advertising.[1]

Multiple similar campaigns were performed outside of the United States, with similar results, as outlined in the "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" Documentary on Netflix.

Products

This is a list of the company's product lines with articles on this wiki.

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Clark, Simon (2017-06-27). "Pepsi, Goya Accused of Hiding Levels of Potentially Dangerous Caramel Color". Classaction. Archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
  2. ↑ Antell, Amanda (2014-01-29). "Class Action Says Pepsi, Malta Goya Contain Cancer-Causing Chemical". Top Class Actions. Archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
  3. ↑ Warmerdam, Elizabeth (2014-01-28). "Class Claims Pepsi Contains Carcinogen". Courthouse News Service. Archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
  4. ↑ Schweizer, Errol (18 Dec 2025). "How Walmart And Pepsico Rigged Prices And Supercharged Food Inflation". Forbes. Archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
  5. ↑ R. Hood, James (17 December 2025). "Walmart, Pepsi accused of manipulating prices". Consumer Affairs. Archived from the original on 16 Feb 2026. Retrieved 21 Mar 2026.
  6. ↑ "IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STA TE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES" (PDF). Calfifornia Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General. 18 July 2006. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 Dec 2025. Retrieved 2026-03-04.
  7. ↑ Edwards, Jessy (2024-11-08). "Pepsi, Coca-Cola untruthful about about single-use plastic waste, lawsuit claims". Top Class Actions. Archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
  8. ↑ "SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES" (PDF). climatepolicyradar. 30 October 2024. Archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
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