{"id":239,"date":"2006-09-06T21:51:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-09-06\/239"},"modified":"2006-09-06T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T12:51:47","slug":"shedding-light-on-misleading-product-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-09-06\/239","title":{"rendered":"Shedding Light on Misleading Product Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n\nShopping for a particular kind of 50W lightbulb, I found<\/span> what I needed<\/span> in\nthe package shown here. At first<\/span> glance I see<\/span> that it's a 50W<\/b> type,\nand that it saves about 10%<\/b> on energy. Cool.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nLooking closer, I see that<\/span> the big “50<\/b>” is basically a lie.<\/span> It says:<\/p>\n\n
\npower consumption 45 watt\n50<\/b><\/span>\nWATT style<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\n

At least the “10%<\/b>” part is true. It says:<\/p>\n\n
\n(comparing within our own company)<\/small>\nabout 10<\/b><\/span>%<\/span>\nenergy-saving type<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\n

Well, of course, if you use a 45-watt bulb where you intend to use a\n50<\/span>-watt bulb, you'll be saving 10% on energy. The problem is that you'll\nhave 10% less light!<\/b> Geez, I'm glad that<\/span> they didn't “save” me\nmore. (Why not put a 25<\/span>-watt bulb and claim a 50<\/span>% savings?)<\/p>\n\n

To be clear, there's nothing here about “the same light output as\na traditional<\/span> 50-watt bulb” or anything like that. It's simply<\/span> a\nlower<\/span>-wattage bulb with a high<\/span>-wattage number printed in the largest\ntype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

This type of deception is probably as common here as in The States. I first<\/span> noticed it here long ago, in a grocery<\/span> store with a beverage<\/span> carton\nthat looked like an orange-juice carton, had a picture<\/span> of an orange on it,\nand had ORANGE 100<\/b><\/span> written on it in huge letters. One could<\/span> be forgiven for thinking that it was 100% orange juice, and this\nwould have been very nice because at the time, orange juice was extremely\nexpensive (having only recently been legal to sell in the first place) due\nto protectionist government regulations that gave very strong preference to\ntangerine juice, which can be grown\/produced in Japan.\n<\/p>

\n\nIn reality, as the small print revealed, it had only some small percentage\nof orange juice, but did<\/b> have 100% of the recommended daily dose of\nsome vitamin or other. That's where the “100” came from. It was clear<\/span> that it was purposefully misleading to make a quick<\/span> sale.<\/p>\n\n

I've even seen things taken a step further. Japanese beverages must\nstate the percent of juice they contain, so I've seen “Orange\n100” type labeling with a clear<\/span> “100% juice” on the\nfront.... the small print on the back, however, reveals that it's a mix\nof juices<\/b>, with lemon or apple juice used to fill in for the more\nexpensive orange juice (The relative percentages of each type of juice is\nnot revealed, so it could well be something like 1% orange juice.)\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIt's as true here as anywhere: buyer beware<\/b>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shopping for a particular kind of 50W lightbulb, I found what I needed in the package shown here. At first glance I see that it's a 50W<\/b> type, and that it saves about 10%<\/b> on energy. Cool. <\/p>

Looking closer, I see that the big \"50<\/b>\" is basically a lie. It says:<\/p> power consumption 45 watt 50<\/b> WATT style

At least the \"10%<\/b>\" part is true. It says:<\/p> (comparing within our own company) about 10<\/b>% energy-saving type

Well, of course, if you use a 45-watt bulb where you intend to use a 50-watt bulb, you'll be saving 10% on [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}