Also, she is 'encouraged' to recommend the products sold by the
newspaper's advertisers. The companies complain to the proprietors
if they feel that such writers are pushing alternative solutions
too hard, and the Daily Telegraph does not have a wonderful reputation
in that respect, even by the standards of UK newspapers.

Hmm, referring to brand names rather than generic terms does make you
wonder.
As someone said on here recently, the Bayer (hardly novices in the
chemical business) version is on sale in the Pound Shop.