Consumer fraud

Tampering with monitoring equipment and falsifying consumer certifications has been the basis of criminal convictions. In May, 1998, Louisiana-Pacific Corp. pleaded guilty to Clean Air Act (CAA) and consumer fraud violations at its strand board manufacturing plant near Montrose, Colorado, agreed to pay a 5.5 million criminal fine, 31 million for consumer fraud... 

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Another important Gilded Age commercial development was the use of advertising for mass marketing of consumer products. Although consumers had been sickened and defrauded by purveyors of adulterated food for centuries, the advent of large-scale advertising and impersonal multi-state markets made massive consumer fraud a commonplace occurrence. ... 

We can expect drastic changes in the food packaging industry. Some will arise from new consumer needs, new or expanded food supplies and products, and new food preservation systems such as aseptic packaging. Others will result from societally based constraints such as safety in health and hazardous use (as in the child safety closure legislation) and consumer protection against fraud, misinformation, or wrongful use where the burden for awareness is no longer on the buyer but on the supplier. Other such constraints will arise from environmental concerns or material scarcities. 

The EU laws follow three principles related to consumer health (1) protection, (2) fraud prevention, and (3) trade barriers. The union tried to harmonize the laws of different countries, particularly in recent years when the enlargement of the European Community became dynamic. Color Directive 94/36/EC contains horizontal provisions that refer to common laws in different countries and vertical directives that apply to specific foods. The EU directives take into account the recommendations of the Scientific Committee for Food (SCF), the Codex AUmen-tarius Commission, and the Joint Food and Agriculture OrganizationAVorld Health Organization (FAOAVHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). 

From the consumer s point of view as well, controls on food products are needed, from a food safety and traceability perspective. The problem of adulteration and falsification of food has ancient roots which date back to the Roman Age and continue, through the Middle and Modem Ages, till nowadays the deployment of new analytical tools for fraud detection has caused a parallel progress in the adulteration procedures, which has gradually evolved from coarse and rudimentary systems to highly sophisticated and scarcely detectable strategies. 

Since Wiehn must also have read the information he quoted from Reitlinger59 regarding evacuation rates, one cannot help but suspect a deliberate attempt to falsify history and even to commit academic fraud. Incidentally, a few pages further one finds yet another and even more time-consuming and extremely dubious murder method. Reitlinger 60... 

Scenario Credit cards are arguably easier to carry and safer to use than cash, but they can still be lost or used by unauthorized parties. As a result, credit card lenders have accumulated millions of dollars in fraudulent charges, and consumers are at great risk of identity theft. But what if credit card lenders challenged the status quo in search of a new, fraud-free method of payment Let s see how Creative Challenge could help them accomplish this job. 

As the dietary supplement industry drastically continues to grow, so does the risk. Possible fraudulent products as well as consumer injury are both widely reported. It is very simple for a consumer to obtain such products of fraud due to advertisements on the internet, TV, and magazines. These articles promote a new product claiming to be a miracle cure , magical , or new discovery , however, if the product was a cure it would already be reported and used by health care professionals. Some promotions claim that the product can cure a wide range of unrelated diseases, but no product can do this. There are even some that claim to be backed by scientific studies, but the references may be inadequate or nonexistent. For instance, if a list of references is... 

Frederick Accum s classic treatise on adulterations of food and drugs, published in 1820, was the first popular book to focus public attention on the seriousness of the problem.(2) Accum pointed out that some adulterations were harmless, resulting merely in fraud on the consumer, but others were deleterious to health as well. After widely-publicized investigations of food and drug adulteration, England enacted national statutes in 1850 and 1875 prohibiting any ingredient "injurious to health."(3-4)... 

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