FTC announces a settlement including $9 million in consumer redress for false ads for green coffee extract supplements. In a dissent, Commissioners Maureen Ohlhausen and Joshua Wright argue that comments made in TV programs are “protected non-commercial speech” and should not influence the amount of a fine.
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest order requiring clinical trials to support dietary supplement claims reveals a schism among commission members over whether health claims and other promotional comments made on “The Dr. Oz Show” and other TV programs are commercial speech.
FTC announced Jan. 26 that Lindsey Duncan, the head of Austin, Texas, companies, Pure Health LLC and Genesis Today Inc.,...
Some FDA employees who were recently laid off by the Trump Administration are being called back to work, multiple sources confirmed to the Pink Sheet.
Proposed administrative order likely is first to prompt opposition from OTC industry or other stakeholders potentially delaying or deferring the agency’s expectation for moving its proposal to a deemed final order effective one year after it would be published.
Qnovia notes NRT inhalation product recently received investigational new drug clearance from FDA as agency and NIH say innovation needed smoking cessation to help improve rate of success for quitting the habit that kills around 500,000 US consumers annually.
The Washington State Department of Ecology will try to work with companies that violate the Toxic Free Cosmetics Act, rather than reflexively imposing the $5,000-per-violation fine for first-time offenders, says the law’s implementation planner. She noted financial assistance is available for small businesses, as well as incentives for companies adopting measures “beyond compliance.”
