18 Jul, 2024 AI-Powered Detection App Gets FTC Scrutiny By Terri Seligman The FTC recently posted its Closing Letter to HeHealth, Inc., which provides an AI-powered application, Calmara, for the detection of...
24 May, 2024 NAD Refers Crisis Pregnancy Center to Attorney General and Social Media Platforms By Terri Seligman As both consumers and advertising lawyers know, there are many ways that unscrupulous advertisers mislead their target audience: they...
16 Apr, 2024 Is "Goodness and Nutrition" a Claim Requiring Substantiation? By Jeff Greenbaum Dole markets a variety of fruit products – such as Fruit Bowls in Gel, Fruit Bowl Parfaits, and Canned Juices – with various...
13 Apr, 2023 FTC Issues Notice of Penalty Offenses on Substantiating Product Claims By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission just issued a Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Substantiation of Product Claims to nearly 700 marketers...
22 Dec, 2022 FTC Issues New Guidance for Health Claims By Terri Seligman Making health claims? And who isn’t? If you are, you should be sure to read the FTC’s new Health Products Compliance Guidance. Or at...
06 Jul, 2020 Pain free? Not these marketers By Terri Seligman The FTC has announced a $22 million settlement with the marketers of a “low-level light therapy device” called Willow Curve. The...
23 Jun, 2020 Implied Claims Lurking in Consumer Reviews Attract NAD Attention By Terri Seligman Earlier this month, I blogged about NAD’s first COVID claim case. There, as I reported, NAD recommended that Your Superfoods modify its...
05 Jun, 2020 NAD Doesn’t Like Coronavirus Prevention Claims Either By Terri Seligman Seems like we’re blogging every day about regulators’ efforts to shut down claims for products purporting to provide prevention or...
23 Apr, 2020 FTC Offers Pain Relief to Consumers of Fraudulent Supplements with $38 Million Judgment By Terri Seligman The FTC has announced a settlement with the marketers of three supplements who, the FTC alleged, deceptively promoted their products to...
13 Apr, 2020 More Joint Enforcement Action From the FDA and FTC By Terri Seligman The incorrigible Alex Jones, of Infowars infamy, is at it again: this time marketing colloidal silver supplements and other products with...
17 Oct, 2019 Biased Endorsements (And Unsubstantiated Health Claims) Get FTC's Attention, Again By Terri Seligman As I blogged about earlier this week, the FTC really doesn’t like it when marketers’ unsubstantiated health claims can result in people...
15 Oct, 2019 STOP EVERYTHING AND READ THIS RIGHT NOW!* *not really By Terri Seligman Last month, the FTC issued letters of "concern" to seven legal practitioners and lead generators because of their television...
27 Nov, 2018 NAD Dissatisfied With E.D. Supplement Ads By Terri Seligman NAD requested substantiation from Health Club Diet for a number of claims in its advertising for Androzene, a dietary supplement for...
25 Oct, 2018 FTC Goes After Dissolvable Oral Film Strips By Jeff Greenbaum A federal district court in California temporarily enjoined a company's advertising of dissolvable oral film strips that the FTC alleged...
27 Sep, 2018 Clinically Proven To Make You Feel Better By Terri Seligman This is the claim I saw on a poster in a store window this morning on my way to work. I don't know about you, but a lot of things make...
17 Jul, 2018 New NAD Case Provides Roadmap for Health Claims By Terri Seligman As part of its routine monitoring program and in conjunction with NAD’s initiative with the Council for Responsible Nutrition, NAD opened...