Supplements Mixed With Direct Selling A Recipe Ripe For Cooking US FTC Regulation Violations

Doesn’t take long to find health and wellness product marketers on list of direct sellers or find firms offering those products in the FTC's history of enforcement actions in the sector. 

• Source: Alamy

Dietary supplements and other consumer health remedies aren’t the only type of products US direct sellers offer, or the only type offered by direct sellers targeted for regulatory enforcement due to violations of advertising and other business regulations.

It doesn’t take long, though, to find health and wellness product marketers on a list of direct sellers, also known...

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