Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Anyone know what happened to the Truth in Advertising laws?

Such laws exist. The labeling is seemingly deceptive. A complain would have been made to managment first, I would think to be fair. The individual customer would read the label and see the ingredients and if there were damages might recoupe a loss such as a trip to a hospital. This scenario seems unlikely. Another example of how vague these laws are is as follows. The spokesperson for a hair dye company need use the product on one strand of hair to then come on television and act as if the entire head was dyed with the product. A certain eye drop company has repeatedly been sued and fined, and, just pays the fine, reformulates the product and resells it. So, the laws are on the books. Probably most people have figured out that what makes restaurant food taste so good is a high amount of salt used in the preparation. How you wish to proceed is a personal matter. Probably, the best thing is to join an ongoing program of lobbying to have restaurants publish the calorie count and other ingredients, such as sodium and sugars in their products. Going against a major corporation without it being a class action is not worth it, but a phone call to corporate is worth it.

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