Phoenix dietary supplement company ThermoLife International, LLC, has sued Denver competitor MusclePharm Corporation in U.S. District Court in Arizona, claiming that MusclePharm’s Creatine supplement is infringing ThermoLife’s U.S. Patent No. 7,777,074 for amino acid compounds, including creatine nitrate, a vasodilator that increases blood flow. In its Complaint, filed February 1, 2012, ThermoLife contends that the [...]

I have an article published in this month’s Nutritional Outlook that discusses our recent big win for energy drink maker Celsius in a class action filed against it in California state court. My article discusses class actions challenging advertising and labeling claims for dietary supplements and food products in which companies are accused of making [...]

Infomercials are popular methods for selling nutritional supplements and other products. However, they must follow the same rules that govern other advertising. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has authority under the Federal Trade Commission Act to regulate unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce. That includes the [...]

Below is a press release issued by Irwin Naturals about its settlement of an investigation into its mislabeling and falsely advertising some of its products under California Law: Irwin Naturals, one of the nation’s leading suppliers of natural dietary and herbal supplements, announces that it has reached a settlement with a California task force that [...]

Nearly all of the herbal dietary supplements tested in a Congressional investigation contained trace amounts of lead and other contaminants, and some supplement sellers made illegal claims that their products can cure cancer and other diseases, investigators found. So begins an article in the New York Times on a Government Accounting Office report released May [...]

GUEST POST BY DAVID MARK The Washington Post recently published an article asserting that vitamin D is shaping up to be the nutrient of the year, if not the decade. The article started factually strong but weakened at the end when it made specific recommendations. The Post references an article in Consumer Reports titled “Most [...]