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Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw by CydeWeys on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:22AM (#20901956)
You can't (well, shouldn't) mislabel your beverage's ABV. It's trivial to test and thus determine that you're lying, and the result would be a hugely costly recall of all product.

The accuracy requirements are very strict on this. It's already not a problem; intentionally lying about ABV on the label would be a foolish thing to do that would get you in lots of trouble.

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Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw by fuzz4lyfe on Saturday September 07, 2019 @07:09AM (#20903065)
Similar statements can be made about insider trading or constitutional violations.
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Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw by CydeWeys on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:37PM (#20905274)
Not really. Those are much harder to detect and prove, and remedies have to go through the courts.

If improperly ABV-labeled alcohol is detected, it will be immediately recalled from all shelves nationwide, no court involvement necessary.

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Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw by massaman_yams on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:41AM (#20992312)
Labeled as 5% but actually containing 40%, sure. Labeled as 35% but containing 40%? No, because those are functionally identical for most consumers.
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