81-2,285. False advertisement regarding food; prohibited; false advertisement, defined.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the sale, merchandising, or distribution of food to cause, with intent to deceive, the dissemination of a false advertisement regarding a food.
(2) An advertisement of a food shall be deemed to be false if it is false or misleading in any manner, including the following:
(a) The advertising of food as that of another;
(b) The advertising of food in a manner causing the likelihood of confusion or of misunderstanding as to the source, sponsorship, approval, or certification of such food;
(c) The advertising of food in a manner causing the likelihood of confusion or misunderstanding as to affiliation, connection, or association with or certification by another;
(d) The advertisement of food by use of deceptive representations or deceptive designation of geographic origin in connection with such food;
(e) The advertisement of food by way of representations that the food has sponsorship, approval, characteristics, ingredients, benefits, uses, or qualities that it does not have or that a person or company has a sponsorship, approval status, affiliation, or connection that he, she, or it does not have;
(f) The advertisement of food by way of a representation that the food is of a particular standard, quality, or grade when it is not;
(g) The advertisement of food by disparaging the food of another by false or misleading representations of fact;
(h) The advertisement of food with an intent not to sell it as advertised or an intent to sell an alternative food in substitution for the advertised food;
(i) The advertisement of food with the intent not to supply a reasonably expectable public demand unless the advertisement imposes a limitation of quantity; or
(j) The advertisement of food by making false or misleading statements of fact concerning the reasons for, existence of, or amounts of price reductions.
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