Kerran v. Federal Trade Commission

The majority opinion sustains the Federal Trade Commission in requiring the manufacturer of an admittedly high quality domestic product to disclose in its advertising and on its container labels the source of its product. It does so in the absence of any claim that such manufacturer has ever made a deceptive or misleading statement in connection with the marketing of the product, rc-refined lubricating oil. A deceptive practice is said to result from the marketing of the product “in containers indistinguishable from those used generally to market lubricating oil refined from virgin crude,…