GUEST COLUMN by Judith L. Grubner, Esq., Arnstein & Lehr Partner and Intellectual Property Practice Group Leader Some of us remember when parents would chase their children out to play in the sun, with no protection other than play clothes. Today, the Federal Trade Commission tells us overexposure to the sun’s invisible rays – ultraviolet [...]
Attention copywriters. The FDA has taken out a bright red pen and is poised to mark up your product statements. The green shades (an antiquated description of newspaper copyeditors) signaled much closer review of health claims with a warning to General Mills about oat cereal. The agency has also revised a health claim for selenium, [...]
QVC has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it made false and unsubstantiated claims about three types of dietary supplements in violation of an FTC order, and about an anti-cellulite skin cream in violation of the FTC Act. The agency alleged that QVC violated a 2000 FTC order barring [...]
The National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB) is referring advertising for the dietary supplement Colotox, from Phoenix-based Central Coast Nutraceuticals Inc., to the FDA and FTC for review. Under its National Advertising Review Council (NARC) program, NAD had asked the company for substantiation of certain claims for its product, [...]
In the conclusion to the FTC’s follow-up action against Kevin Trudeau for making deceptive claims about his books, a federal judge has ordered Trudeau to pay more than $37 million for violating a 2004 stipulated order by misrepresenting the content of his book, “The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About.” We [...]
Back in September we reported on FTC action against companies allegedly selling bogus cancer cures. To read our original post, click here. The FTC press release page on this matter lists the actions and contains links to the case files for each. Among the cases is one entitled In the Matter of Daniel Chapter One, [...]
