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Energy bills mislead with phantom savings offers
2016-11-18 23:16:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Customers are being misled by offers on gas and electricity bills which never materialise, BBC Money Box discovers.
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energy
savings
bills
Broadband ads mislead and must change
2016-05-04 01:48:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Advertising Standards Authority rules that broadband ads need to be clearer, following evidence the public don't understand current ones.
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ads
broadband
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Meat labels mislead consumers in EU, says BEUC report
2015-11-05 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Meat products sold in the European Union are often found to contain less meat than mentioned on the label, and sometimes an altogether different variety, according to a report of European Consumer Organisation Europäischer Verbraucherverband Bureau E
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labels
consumers
meat
The fossil-fuel industrys campaign to mislead American people
2015-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution. Their activities are often compared to those of Big Tobacco denying the health dangers of smoking. Big Tobaccos denial scheme was ultimately found by a federal judge to have amounted to a racketeering enterprise. The Big Tobacco playbook looked something like this: (1) pay scientists to produce studies defending your...
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american
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Red light, green light: How nutritional labels can mislead
2014-12-27 06:45:32| Beverages - Topix.net
So many foods beckoning us from the grocery store shelves - but which ones are healthy for us to consume? We could study nutritional facts labels, but that feels as challenging as the math portion of the SAT, with so much numerical information to process. The label tells us how many calories are in the food in question - how many grams of protein, how many grams of fat, and of saturated fat .