One of the Problems....
....Is that the Feds no longer adequately enforce the law on stainless steel.
Time was, anything marked "Stainless Steel" really was stainless steel, conforming to a certain metallurgical standard.
Now, I'm seeing items marked "Stainless Steel" that are no such thing (Target and Walmart's kitchenwares departments are big offenders). This seems to be traceable to Chinese manufacturers for the most part, though I couldn't say if it's deliberate deception or if an item was spec'ed in stainless and then changed, with the packaging remaining the same. And ad-speak has confused things further, with "stainless-look" refrigerator fronts and the like.
The worst is eBay, where anything made of any vaguely shiny silver-colored metal is likely to be listed as stainless, including aluminum West Bend canisters, chrome Lincoln Beautyware breadboxes, you name it. If all the auctions erroneously listed as stainless had to be taken down for misrepresentation, there would be a lot of business lost to eBay during the time sellers were correcting their ads.