FTC Goes After Acne App Marketers
LOL – this was a new one on me: using phone apps to commit health fraud. The cases involving mobile apps “AcneApp” and “Acne Pwner” are the first the FTC has brought targeting health claims in the mobile application marketplace. The FTC alleged that the mobile apps were advertised to work in the same way: both claimed to be able to treat acne with colored lights emitted from smartphones or mobile devices. Consumers were advised...
Should Serving Sizes be More Realistic?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest certainly thinks so: Labels for canned soup, ice cream, coffee creamer, and aerosol non-stick cooking sprays understate the calories, sodium, and saturated fat consumers are likely to get from those products, since the declared serving sizes are much smaller than actual serving sizes, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. In a recent letter to Food and Drug...
New Food Safety Ads are Just Plain Weird
Back in my college daze, I took a medical school class on the investigation and identification of food and water-borne illnesses, in addition to my basic coursework on food microbiology. “Food and water-borne illness” is just a nice way of writing “food poisoning,” doncha know. And while studying it wasn’t as nasty as experiencing it, suffice it to say, learning about often violent – and even deadly...
DOJ Throws the Book at Owners of Two NJ Supp Companies
Two NJ dietary supplement companies have been found guilty of criminal contempt for violating a consent decree with the FDA over violations of current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) regulations. The defendants’ businesses manufactured and distributed food products and supplements, including many varieties of protein powder mixes, as well as other powder mixes and dietary supplements. The products were distributed under the...
Coalition Sues FDA Over Antibiotics Used in Factory Farming
Via the National Resources Defense Council: The lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT), Public Citizen, and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) was spurred by growing evidence that the spread of bacteria immune to antibiotics around the world has clear links to the overuse of antibiotics in the food industry. The coalition suit...
FDA/FTC Crack Down on OTC STD Treatments
The LA Times has it covered… In a joint effort, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission said they had ordered 11 companies…to stop the sale of these bogus STD cures or face criminal action. Most of the STD drugs are being sold online, though some are also in retail outlets. …The companies in the FDA’s crosshairs claim their products treat and prevent the spread of a range of STDs,...
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