The Federal Trade Commission suggests an industry-self regulation group’s guidance for direct sellers’ income claims doesn’t track with the agency’s regulations, an argument the group says it will address when the FTC publishes a rule for earnings claims.
The disagreement between the associate director of the FTC Division of Marketing Practices and executives at the Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council and the Direct Selling Association, which has numerous consumer health and beauty product multi-level marketers among its members, could mark a rare occasion of the federal agency with oversight of advertising and trade