"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Doug Kanter wrote:
>>
>> It's a stupid thing to call sea salt. If you really wanted to,
>> you could send the FDA a picture of the label, and the distributor
>> would have to change it eventually.
>
> Total waste of time. That's not an FDA issue.
>
> It would be a Federal Trade Commission issue,
> because it implies that the product is special
> in some way that competing products are not.

Right - my fingers confused our government.


>
> It would be like making a label claim that the
> product is mercury-free. Unless the seller can
> show that competing products contain significant
> levels of mercury (which are absent in his
> product), that would be an unlawful claim.

Actually, that's not quite right. Food can be declared free of anything at
all, as long as it's true. There's no requirement to prove that a
competitor's product contains what you say yours does not. So, Tropicana red
grapefruit juice says "naturally fat free" on the front. I like it, because
it means there are morons out there somewhere who think that maybe *other*
grapefruit juice has fat. My son and I think we may have spotted some of
these people. :-)