To suggest that it matters whether the mislabelling precedes or succeeds removal from the shelves is to reduce this branch of the law to an absurdity.

The band also declined a Juno Award nomination in the R&B category, because they felt it was a mislabelling of the song.

The discovery of fraud through adulteration and mislabelling of grain which is shipped abroad has created distrust among foreign businessmen who purchase grain from American companies.'

One possible source of confusion for this stems from the mislabelling of all Amharic speakers as Amhara, and the fact that many people from other ethnic groups have Amharic names.

"My experience over a period of some fifty years suggests that we can always expect adulteration and mislabelling of olive-oil products in the absence of surveillance by official sources," David Firestone, an F.D.A. chemist who was the agency's olive-oil specialist from the mid-sixties to 1999, told me.