Exam 11: Liability and the Sale of Food

An example of privity of contract is going in to the store and purchasing bad peas and suing the store.

If a beverage is above boiling hot, the product does not need to be branded with "Caution, hot beverage."

Restaurateurs and tavern keepers have a duty to protect customers from ____________________.

After eating a meal at a fast-food restaurant, Mandy discovered that the nutritional content was very low. True or false: The meal violated the warranty of merchantability.

The number of states that have adopted the Uniform Commercial Code is ____________________________________________________________________.

The FDA mandates the food and drug industry.

Laws that require restaurants to remove untruthful statements from their menus and advertisements are called _________________________ laws.

Which of the following is not a breach of the warranty of merchantability?

The warranty of merchantability applies when a supplier delivers ordered food to a restaurant.

To alleviate the privity requirement, most states have adopted a cause of action called ___________________________________.

Warranty of merchantability and strict products liability are identical bases on which to sue for a defective product.

Merchantable means the goods are not of good quality and fit for their ordinary purpose.

Patty ate a chocolate chip cookie and choked when a chocolate chip went down the wrong way. True or false: Because of the presence of the chocolate chips, the cookie breached the warranty of merchantability.

Customers who were injured eating walnut ice cream with the shell of the nut violates merchantability.

Which of the following is not true about kosher food?

If an innkeeper purchased a couch for a guest room, and it collapsed when the first guest to occupy the room sat on it, the couch would violate the warranty of ____________________.

If a restaurant is unable to control an unruly diner, an employee should ______________________________.

Trichinosis is an illness caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products infected with larvae.

A law passed by Congress in 1990 mandating certain information be placed on food labels is called the ____________________________________________________________.

The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act requires that food labels contain a statement of the U.S recommended daily allowance the food product contains of total fat, carbohydrates, and fiber.