[JRandomFreeper]

and you find out later it's really just chrome plated?

That is a tort, individually, and possibly fraud charges at the State level.

What gives the FedGov the lawful power to regulate that?

/johnny

[BunnySlippers]

Does the FDA do it now? How could the states individually regulate labeling?

[mnehring]

What gives the FedGov the lawful power to regulate that?

In the case of the silver analogy, the government is authorized by the Constitution to regulate weights and measures. A marketing term that signifies "grade" however, isn't authorized to the fedgov.

[OldDeckHand]

'That is a tort, individually, and possibly fraud charges at the State level."

A tort based on what? If there no legal standard of "extra virgin", then everything can be extra virgin. You have no bases upon which to build a tort claim.

"What gives the FedGov the lawful power to regulate that?"

The Commerce Clause, or so held the Supreme Court in a number of challenges to the The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

[1010RD]

Excellent re-tort (pun intended).