AG1 (Athletic Greens) Lawsuit: Heavy Metals and Subscription Claims

The Heavy-Metals Claim

AG1, the popular greens powder from Athletic Greens, faces class-action allegations that it contains toxic heavy metals — lead, cadmium and arsenic — at levels the plaintiffs say are unsafe over time, and that the company did not warn consumers. Supporting the concern, AG1 carries a California Proposition 65 warning for lead. Heavy metals can enter plant-based supplements through soil and ingredients, and disclosure is the legal pressure point.

These are allegations; the presence and health significance of any metals, and what disclosure was required, are contested.

The Advertising and Subscription Claims

Separately, class actions allege AG1 made overstated health claims — promising broad benefits the product could not deliver — and that it enrolled customers into automatically renewing, hard-to-cancel subscriptions in violation of California’s Automatic Renewal Law. The auto-renewal theory is the same one behind cases against many subscription businesses: sign-up is easy, cancellation is not, and the enrollment was not clearly disclosed.

So “AG1 lawsuit” spans three distinct issues: contamination, marketing and billing.

What Consumers Should Know

Supplements are lightly regulated, so a Prop 65 warning and third-party testing tell you more than marketing does. If you subscribe, note the cancellation terms up front and keep proof of any cancellation. None of these cases has produced a consumer settlement fund yet.