Similarly, a number of paint manufacturers have advertised their paint as containing no added lead when adding paint to lead has been illegal for some time, and a number of detergents have been advertised as being “biodegradable” when in fact all detergents sold in the UK are biodegradable.
Once company even claimed that its lead-free petrol caused “no pollution to the environment”
Perhaps the most bizarre claim of all was by an America manufacturer which claimed that its cornflakes were dolphin friendly”