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Own-Label Multi-Level Marketer 'Repeatedly Warned' And 'Dissolved,' But Distributed Supplements Until Shut Down

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

DoJ complained filed Tennessee federal court also says the firm, identified as Basic Reset and as Biogenyx in Hendersonville, TN, distributed a noncompliant device branded Energy FX, a pendant for pets and people that emits "positive healthy energy" that "overrides the negative [electromagnetic frequencies] pollution."

A Tennessee multi-level marketer disincorporated after receiving a Food and Drug Administration warning letter and additional notifications but continued distributing dietary supplements until a complaint for permanent injunction was filed in late August.

The complaint the Department of Justice filed on 26 August in US District for the Tennessee Middle District also...

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