Federal Trade Commission
Prevagen Maker Faces FTC and New York Claims Challenge
Quincy Bioscience (Wisconsin) failed to dismiss a lawsuit in which the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York attorney general said it deceptively marketed the dietary supplement Prevagen by claiming it improved memory, despite a lack of scientific evidence. In a decision released on July 25, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan rejected Quincy’s ...
CSPI Sends Warning on Ginkgo, Urges FDA to Take Action
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has urged consumers to avoid supplements made with ginkgo biloba, which they warn are often adulterated and have been shown to be ineffective in improving memory and circulation. The nonprofit nutrition and food safety watchdog group is also calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ...
FTC Complaint Against Quincy Bioscience Dismissed
On September 29, Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York dismissed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) complaint against Wisconsin-based Quincy Bioscience, the makers of Prevagen. In January, the FTC and the NYAG charged the marketers of the dietary supplement Prevagen with making ...
FTC Issues Statement on Homeopathic Drug Marketing Claims
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a new “Enforcement Policy Statement on Marketing Claims for Over-the-Counter (OTC) Homeopathic Drugs.” The policy statement was informed by an FTC workshop held last year to examine how such drugs are marketed to consumers. The FTC also released its staff report on the workshop, which summarizes the panel presentations ...
NPA Works to Repeal Puerto Rico Order on Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) is meeting with members of the House of Representatives to overturn an administrative order (Administrative Order #346) issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Department of Health that would raise prices for dietary supplement and natural products consumers and adds requirements for retailers/distributors inconsistent with federal law. The NPA is ...
Bayer Defeats FTC in Supplement Contempt Case
The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) suit vs. Bayer over probiotic claims has favored Bayer, denying the FTC’s motion to hold Bayer in contempt of a 2007 consent order for promoting Phillips’ Colon Health. The suit was about whether or not clinical trials were necessary for Bayer to conduct before it promoted Phillips’ Colon Health probiotics. ...
Supplement Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Pallone Now on Key House Committee
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), the co-chair of the Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucus, narrowly beat out Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) to replace vocal supplement industry critic Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) as the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, reported the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA). Among the committee’s broad jurisdiction are several ...
Authors Retract Green Coffee Bean Diet Paper Touted by Dr. Oz
According to Retraction Watch report, two authors of a 2012 paper cited on The Dr. Oz Show, which made grand claims about green coffee bean extract’s abilities to help people lose weight, have retracted it. The study’s sponsors, Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham, cannot assure the validity of the data so so they are retracting the paper, reported ...
NPA Urges Supreme Court to Clarify Claims on Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) this week filed a “friend of the court” or amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey that challenges legal action by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) against Bayer for its marketing of its Phillips’ ...
Weight Loss Supplement Claims Provide FTC with Enforcement Initiatives
Advertising claims for weight loss supplement products feed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with the highest settlement costs within the dietary supplement and functional food category, according to a new web-based, members-only tool from the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN, Washington, D.C.). The new online tool is a compilation of all available FTC advertising enforcement ...
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