The Italian Competition Authority ruled that the commercial practice of Riso Scotti S.p.A. constituted an unfair commercial practice.
According to the Authority, the trader advertised its line of products emphasizing its false capacity of reducing cholesterol.
The investigation established that the concerned products were unsuitable and generally not capable of reducing cholesterol, therefore these products did not have an adequate ability to reduce cholesterol as advertised.
The advertising of the trader was considered an unfair commercial practice consisting in the diffusion of false information, which deceived the average consumer in relation to the main characteristics of the advertised products. This impaired consumer's ability to make an informed decision and caused (or might cause) him to take a transactional decision that he would not have taken otherwise.
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