economic adulteration
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From 318 U.S. 218 - Federal Security Adm'r v. Quaker Oats Co · 1943Most cited · 333 citing opinions
such a prohibition was inadequate to protect the consumer from 'economic adulteration', by which less expensive ingredients were substituted, or the proportion of more expensive ingredients diminished, so as to make the product, although not in itself deleterious, inferior to that which the consumer expected to receive when purchasing a product with the name under which it was sold