( February 18, 2025, 8:44 AM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge dismissed with prejudice a putative class action accusing a food manufacturer of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by misrepresenting as “natural” fruit bar products that actually contained artificial flavors, finding among other deficiencies that the plaintiffs failed to allege that their purchases of the product were made within the statute of limitations period....