If a doctor writes a prescription, you can see exactly what it is that he wrote, and that’s exactly what the drugstore will fill ... exactly what he wrote (either brand name of the product or generic name of the product ... both being the same).
Now, Walmart doesn’t have a prescription for those off-the-shelf items, so what the label says it is better be exactly what it is ... or else it’s fraud and that’s criminal. “Labeling” must be exact and true, according to what the laws and agency rules require, or else there is no meaning to labels. That’s fundamental for labeling.
Think about a fraud that works. Where’s the harm?
I tell you I can diviner a Spanish silver mine. You pay me a million. I know I can’t do it. I’m a fake, but I go out with you and walk my diviner rod right into a Spanish sliver mine.
I’m shocked and confess to being a fake. What charge do you bring before the court?