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legislature will provide consumers the opportunity to
fairly and reasonably compare the various products, that the
legislature will take concrete steps to actively implement
the principle that the consumer is entitled to a full,
reasonable and clear picture of the product he is purchasing
as such picture is presented by the label or package of the
product itself.
Now, it is becoming increasingly evident that
sharp business practices, prevalent today in many forms,
will not abate in an atmosphere of virtually unrestrained,
ungoverned package advertising. Rather, the problem is
increasingly poignant as the practiced ingenuity of retail
packagers creates more elaborate, more catchy, more decep-
tive devices to lure the public to its product.
President Johnson, in renewing his request for
legislative action in the packaging and labelling field,
remarked, in 1966, that "It is not enough to hope that such
practices will disappear by themselves. The Government
must do its share to insure the shopper against deception,
to remedy confusion and to eliminate questionable practices,"
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