FTC Reminds Advertisers Large And Small: Substantiate Health Claims Or Face Civil Penalties

Three FDA warnings related to supplement manufacturing, labeling or marketing submitted to Amazon or companies selling vitamin, mineral or supplement products on its e-commerce platform since April 2024.

Four months into session, no bills have been introduced in Congress to authorize FDA to establish a regulatory pathway for the lawful use of hemp ingredients in products other than drugs or propose some other solution to the federal conundrum present since lawmakers in 2018 de-scheduled hemp.

Dyes and colors which FDA says industries agree should no longer be used aren’t unsafe and are currently used only with the agency’s approval, industry stakeholders say. Center for Science in the Public Interest says the dyes are used “in tens of thousands of foods and beverages that are commonly consumed here in the United States.”