Labeling Laws and Consumer Responsibility

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Before reading the chapters for this week, I read the applied learning question I thought that maybe the New World Coffee Company has not broken in laws in regards to the label on their coffee product. Some people might read the label of the coffee and think “oh it’s like Colombian Coffee, but cheaper. Yes, some people might rush through the grocery store and see the word Colombian and buy the product thinking it was real Colombian Coffee. I thought that would be the customers fault for not reading the products label correctly. In chapter twenty-two it states that “a number of federal and state laws deal specifically with the information given on labels and packages. In general, labels must be accurate, and they must specify the raw materials used in the product. There are four acts that have to do with labeling and packaging such as, the fair packaging and labeling act, the energy policy and conservation act, the nutrition labeling and education act, and the patient protection and affordable care act. In the …show more content…

I do not think that there is anything wrong with the name of the coffee product by the New World Coffee Company. I like the name that the New World Coffee Company picked for their coffee product. Some might think that the New World Coffee Company is misleading people because they say that their coffee product taste just like Colombian Coffee, but some customer might disagree. The name of the product is just there to get people to buy the product. It might be accurate that the New World Coffee Company’s coffee product does taste just like Colombian Coffee and is half the price of the real Colombian Coffee. It is all just an opinion. In this situation the answer to whether the New World Coffee Company broke any laws might differ depending on who is

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