Once Again, Diet Pill Retailers Fined For Scummy Behavior!
Sigh. Here we go again. Yup, the FTC has recently charged several companies with making false and unsubstantiated claims about their products. Fines run into the millions of dollars — and why shouldn’t they? After all, the unsuspecting public has been swindled of their cash and duped into believing there’s some sort of magic pill for weight loss — which of course, does not exist. In some cases, the retailers had studies validating the efficacy of their products. Unfortunately, no such studies existed.
So who got fined?
The marketers of CortiSlim and CortiStress — Window Rock Health Laboratories — got nailed with $12 million in fines.
Trimspa, the makers of Trimspa X32, LipoSpa and several other high profile products got assessed $ 1.5 million in fines (Trimspa and the now late Anna Nicole Smith have also been named in a class action suit… boy, has this company got some serious credibility problems!).
Nutraquest (formerly Cytodyne) will be paying a between a whopping 8 and 12.8 million fines for the comments it made about its fat burner Xenadrine EFX.
And lastly is Bayer Corp (yes, Bayer!) who will be handing over $3.2 million from its coffers.
Is there anything the average. moderately-overweight consumer can learn from this?
Absolutely…
Any retailer that makes claim contrary to common sense, any retailer that promises instant results with no effort on your part… well they’re only after one thing. A quick buck. Because in most cases, they cannot validate any of their claims with real science.
And that should concern you.
