David Vladeck, Director of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection spoke at the Council for Responsible Nutrition Conference on the FTC’s “active” dietary supplement enforcement agenda.

This is Part II of the Post that began here in which we discuss the three important suits filed this summer by supplement lawyer Jonathan Emord challenging FDA administrative action on first amendment grounds.
The cGMP Challenge – FDA Overreaching?
The FDA supplement cGMP regulations were anticipated from the time that DSHEA was passed in 1994 since [...]

Supplement lawyer Jonathan Emord has filed three important suits this summer challenging FDA administrative action on first amendment grounds.  The suits were all filed on behalf of long-time Emord clients Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw, the Alliance for Natural Health, and the Coalition to End FDA and FTC Censorship.
The complaints in all three cases were filed [...]

A Dallas jury awarded Advocare MLM franchisees Bruce and Teresa Badgett of Arlington, Texas $1.9 million after finding that the company violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by canceling agreements with distributors .
According to attorney Ted Anderson of Kilgore & Kilgore, trial counsel for the Badgett family, the Badgetts were active and profitable marketers [...]

Dr. Mehmet Oz may have bid farewell to the Oprah Winfrey Show in May, but the pair are back together again, this time as plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York against dozens of companies they claim used their images and false endorsements to market acai supplement products.
Last year, Oz praised [...]

While no one admitted any wrong, two former officers of Nature’s Sunshine Products Inc. and the company have agreed to pay a total of $650,000 in civil penalties in connection with a Securities & Exchange Commission investigation of NSP’s Brazilian subsidiary. The Utah-based maker of nutritional supplements still faces a class-action lawsuit regarding the filing [...]