But mislabeling real fur as fake fur is relatively new.
A year after a Boston Globe investigation, a new round of DNA testing shows that restaurants and stores across Massachusetts are still mislabeling the fish they are selling.
PARIS — The scandal over horse meat in the European food chain widened Thursday from a case of mislabeling to one of food safety as public health authorities in Britain said that a powerful equine painkiller, potentially harmful to human health, "may have entered the food chain" in France.
Tactics like doubling, mirroring and mislabeling objects will be studied closely, as will the social and professional relationships Magritte formed in Paris and Brussels.
On Monday, we arrived at the pier and found our shipping container right there waiting for us — the e-mail on Friday had just been a miscommunication and there had been a mislabeling.
In 2005, for example, executives of several smaller-scale Burgundy merchant houses were found guilty of mislabeling some of their wines.
But what the study found pervasive was mislabeling — beyond what is allowed by federal food regulators — by retail outlets using a name that consumers are more likely to want to buy.
The producers and traders were accused of deliberately mislabeling the wine with a more expensive variety of grape.
Policing a restaurant or a grocery store for mislabeling food most often falls to a state attorney general or a consumer agency, whose offices do not always have the time or resources to track down whether a chicken is really organic or whether that piece of snapper is really tilefish.
In 2009, in one of the last administrative moves by the outgoing government, a new consumer affairs agency was set up to better police defective products, unsafe foods and mislabeling.
But aside from pleading guilty to one misdemeanor charge of mislabeling in an agreement that Novartis announced in February, the company denied wrongdoing.
