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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: on misleading food labels
Message-ID: <371@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 16:07:34 EST
Article-I.D.: cae780.371
Posted: Sat Jan 26 16:07:34 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 02:11:34 EST
References: <4800002@hp-sdd.UUCP> <153@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA
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Summary: 

In article <153@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>I don't have any specific products to cite, but I have always been mystified
>by baked goods which say in bold print on the box "100% butter".  If the
>product it 100% butter, then it should be labeled "butter" and put in the
>dairy case next to the oleo.
>
>What they really mean is that 100% of the shortening/fat/whatever is butter,
>and that they didn't use lard, vegetable shortening, etc.  Not exactly
>mis-leading or deceptive, but odd none-the-less.

The one I noticed was a brand-name soft drink declaring, in large type,
"100% Nutrasweet".  As far as I could tell, it is less than 0.5%
Nutrasweet :-)

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