In re Walgreens Herbal Supplements Marketing & Sales Practices Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

SARAH S. VANCE, Chair.

Before the Panel:* Before the Panel are four dockets arising from a New York state investigation into the herbal supplements industry, which allegedly found based on DNA barcode testing that store brand supplements sold by Walgreens, Wal-Mart, GNC, and Target contained fillers and contaminants in place of the herbal ingredients listed on the product labels.

Plaintiffs in six actions move under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 to centralize each of the above-captioned dockets on a retailer-specific basis in various districts. In MDL No. 2619, plaintiff in one action seeks…