April 5, 2025 - Girl Scout cookies contain lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and mercury at levels that often exceed regulators’ recommended limits, as well as concerning amounts of a toxic herbicide, a new class action lawsuit alleges.

April 4, 2025 - A new Girl Scouts class action lawsuit alleges the organization’s cookies are contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides.

March 19, 2025 - A woman named Amy Mayo filed a class-action lawsuit against Girl Scouts of USA on March 10, alleging that Girl Scout Cookies falsely marketed their products as free of toxins.

March 18, 2025 - The lawsuit accuses the organisation of failing to disclose harmful contaminants in their cookies - the very same cookies sold by young girls to families across the nation. Could this be the next major scandal to rock the food industry?

March 26, 2025 - Lawsuit: Girl Scouts hit with suit over alleged heavy metals, toxins in its cookies

March 14, 2025 - A New York woman filed a lawsuit against the Girl Scouts of America alleging their cookies contain harmful levels of heavy metals and pesticides.

March 13, 2025 - According to USA Today, the lawsuit alleges that Girl Scout Cookies contain dangerous levels of heavy metals and pesticides, and accuses the Girl Scouts of making false claims about the quality and safety of its products to the public.

March 11, 2025 - The complaint states that Girl Scouts had taken “zero responsibility for the fact that defendants had failed to monitor and remove these toxins from their food products regardless of the fact that they are widely used”. The non-profit organisation has been reported to sell an average of 200 million boxes of cookies each year, with annual revenue exceeding USD 1 billion. According to the lawsuit, Girl Scouts and its manufacturers violated consumer protections laws contained in New York’s General Business Law (GBL) by “employing false, misleading and deceptive representations and/or omissions about the presence […] of toxins” in the cookies.

March 11, 2025 - She said she would not have bought the cookies or "would have paid substantially less" had Girl Scouts disclosed the presence of "dangerous toxins." The lawsuit seeks at least $5 million in damages for U.S.

March 12, 2025 - The lawsuit seeks $5 million in damages for people who bought the cookies across the U.S. It also calls for the cookie sellers to disclose the substances on packaging. The Girl Scouts of America responded to the allegations on a blog post last month.

March 17, 2025 - A proposed class action lawsuit alleges certain Girl Scout Cookies are contaminated with “extremely problematic” levels of the pesticide glyphosate and harmful heavy metals.

March 11, 2025 - A new lawsuit alleges cookies sold by the Girl Scouts include “dangerous” heavy metals and pesticides, though the youth organization has denied the claims in defense of its popular product, which draws in hundreds of millions of dollars ...

Products. For example, on January 23, 2025, Plaintiff Mayo purchased three boxes of Girl Scout · Cookies which were produced by Ferrero and ABC Bakers and which were distributed and sold

March 12, 2025 - Forbes reports how a class action lawsuit filed Monday in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn accuses the organization’s much beloved cookies as being “contaminated with dangerous heavy metals,” as well as pesticides. The New York Post reports that this contamination includes Girl Scout Cookie favorites such as Thin Mints.

March 12, 2025 - The Girl Scouts of America are being sued over the alleged presence of heavy metals, including lead, as well as pesticide glyphosate, in some of their cookies.

March 12, 2025 - Girl Scouts Cookies. Credit : Girl Scouts · A New York woman has filed a lawsuit against Girl Scouts of the USA claiming that they are selling cookies contaminated with heavy metals.

March 12, 2025 - New $5 million class action lawsuit claims that Girl Scout cookies contain heavy metals and toxins, sparking concerns over the safety of the popular treats.

March 18, 2025 - The lawsuit seeks $5 million in damages and demands updated packaging that discloses the alleged contaminants. ... "Small amounts of heavy metals can be found naturally in the environment, including in food products, due to air, water, and soil ...

March 12, 2025 - Additionally, thirteen of the tested ... used herbicide. The lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in damages and accuses the Girl Scouts of making false claims about the safety and quality of their cookies....