The piece below, which I will quotation mark from, was scrivened by Donna De La Cruz of the Associated Press, and the (copyrighted) piece appeared in the Albuquerque Journal on Friday, January 5, 2007. The heading of the nonfictional prose reads: (Washington) "Forget Magic Pill, Dieters...Feds Fine Firms For Fake Claims."
Article: Now, that you've indulged in all those vacation goodies and made that declaration to throw pounds, the regime says don't count on a fare pill to aid. The Federal Trade Commission aforesaid Thursday (1/4/07), it was fining the marketers of four weight-loss remedy companies a combined $25 million for specious selling claims. Despite that, the pills Xenadrine EFX, CortiSlim, One-a-Day, WeightSmart and TrimSpa...will loiter on the shelves."
MY Two Cents: There's a fool given birth everyday, and disdain the authorities allowing these companies to sale their fraudulant products, I cognise nearby will contunue to be populace out here who will let fly their funding away on these products.
Article: "It is completion occurrence again, isn't it?" said FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras...'We're implementing our conclusion to fighting backbone antagonistic companies that use false promotion claims.'
Some of the products marketed their claims through infomercials or renown endorsements. Anna Nicole Smith, for example, has endorsed TrimSpa. 'Testimonials from individuals are not a proxy for science,' Magores aforesaid. 'And that's what American's have to get.'
The FTC investigated a potpourri of claims, plus fast weight loss and downgrading in the speculate of osteoporosis, Alzheimer's and even cancer, Majoras notable.
My Two Cents: I saw a to the point serving come through ended AOL (01/07/07) which aforementioned that location are products out on the shelf, that a entity can thieve time they slumber and put in the wrong place weight! The drugs accumulate metabolism piece asleep and PRESTO the weight is gone! (yeah, authority)
Article: "The largest penalty was levied hostile the vender of Xenadrine EFX, ready-made by New Jersey supported Nutraquest, Inc., legitimately certain as Cytodyne Technologies. The marketers will pay at smallest $8 cardinal and as noticeably as $12 million. The merchant was known as RTC Research and Developers LLC, supported in Manasquan, NJ. Majores aforementioned Xenadrine had a examination display that associates who took a medicine wasted more than weight than those winning the lozenge. The FTC's examination besides saved that client endorsers...people who appear in the until that time and the after pictures in many another ads...lost weight by engaging in exact fare and travail programs." A $12 a million superb was assessed antagonistic Window Rock Health Labortories, supported in Brea, Calif., the marketers of CortiSlim. Majoris aforesaid CortiSlim unfairly promised that all users would see irredeemable and quick weight loss, and that it's TV infomercials were 'deceptively formatted' to happen as address shows instead than ads."
Other patternsMy Two Cents: Why don't they put on view a formerly and after work of art of the pocketbooks of the relations who buy this snake-oil? That ought to trademark for many absorbing viewing, don't you think?
Article: "The Bayer Corp., will pay a $3.2 cardinal gracious punishment to put to rights the claims, the FTC same. The FTC aforesaid Bayer marketed One-A-Day WeightSmart beside unsubstantiated claims together with that it increases metabolism. The marketers of TrimSpa, Goen Techonologies, will pay $1.5 million."
My Two Cents: I saw the tube meet people book of this story, and the press officer aforementioned that the fare weight-loss commercial enterprise is a $1.3 cardinal a period of time business and the fines levied resistant these companies amounted to cipher much than peanuts!
Recent recordsQuestion: Who's overseeing the FTC?
I lost 40 pounds in the year 2001, and I have not gained it back, and it took me 10 months to do it, too! (See: How I Lost 40 Pounds). At the introduction of 2007, I standing weigh 170 pounds, and I did it all without purchase any tricks particulate. You cognise how I did it? With the belongings that can't be purchased concluded the counter and you can't get a prescription from your doctor! My natural event in losing weight integrated...discipline; sacrifice; war off temptation and peer-pressure...and inference what? All of these intrinsic worth are covered all of us...and they're FREE!