Three consumers and an animal welfare nonprofit filed the suit in Santa Ana on Aug. 23.
They claim that independent laboratory testing had found the store's beef to have antibiotic and other pharmaceutical residue.
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Those who filed the lawsuit want Whole Foods to correct the marketing and pay unspecified compensatory and punitive damages to shoppers who overpaid.
Whole Foods and its parent company, Amazon, have not commented publicly.
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