What is misbranding?

Fraudulent practice, consisting of providing deliberately misleading information on the packaging for a particular product (hiding information on labelling, evading controversial product or service aspects, etc.) with the objective of benefiting from the confusion generated amongst potential customers.

An extreme case of this unfair competition practice would be the identity theft of external brands, known as brand piracy or falsification.

Other denominations:
False label

 
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