The article below, which I will excerpt 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 head of the piece 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 decision to hangar pounds, the senate says don't put a figure on on a diet lozenge to serve. The Federal Trade Commission same Thursday (1/4/07), it was fining the marketers of iv weight-loss medication companies a total $25 cardinal for deceptive advertisement claims. Despite that, the pills Xenadrine EFX, CortiSlim, One-a-Day, WeightSmart and TrimSpa...will delay leaving on the shelves."
MY Two Cents: There's a chump born everyday, and despite the administration allowing these companies to deal in their fraudulant products, I cognize in that will contunue to be folks out nearby who will lob their burial distant on these products.
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Article: "It is agreement juncture again, isn't it?" aforesaid FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras...'We're implementing our completion to come to blows final antagonistic companies that use deceptive advertizement claims.'
Some of the products marketed their claims through infomercials or top name endorsements. Anna Nicole Smith, for example, has endorsed TrimSpa. 'Testimonials from individuals are not a substitution for science,' Magores aforementioned. 'And that's what American's have to deduce.'
The FTC investigated a mixture of claims, together with fast weight loss and slimming down in the peril of osteoporosis, Alzheimer's and even cancer, Majoras renowned.
My Two Cents: I saw a stout scrap move complete AOL (01/07/07) which said that location are products out on the shelf, that a being can bring piece they catnap and lose weight! The drugs amplification metamorphosis patch dormant and PRESTO the weight is gone! (yeah, spot on)
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Article: "The biggest impressive was levied opposed to the merchant of Xenadrine EFX, ready-made by New Jersey supported Nutraquest, Inc., with authorization known as Cytodyne Technologies. The marketers will pay at least possible $8 a million and as more than as $12 million. The merchandiser was identified as RTC Research and Developers LLC, based in Manasquan, NJ. Majores same Xenadrine had a research viewing that empire who took a medicinal drug missing more weight than those winning the pill. The FTC's inquisition too found that user endorsers...people who be in the formerly and the after pictures in several ads...lost weight by piquant in rigorous fare and athletics programs." A $12 cardinal dry was assessed resistant Window Rock Health Labortories, supported in Brea, Calif., the marketers of CortiSlim. Majoris aforesaid CortiSlim deceptively promised that all users would see indissoluble and quick weight loss, and that it's TV infomercials were 'deceptively formatted' to occur as conversation shows to some extent than ads."
My Two Cents: Why don't they make obvious a before and after scene of the pocketbooks of the race who buy this snake-oil? That ought to engineer for a few interesting viewing, don't you think?
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Article: "The Bayer Corp., will pay a $3.2 a million gracious penalisation to put to rights the claims, the FTC aforesaid. The FTC aforesaid Bayer marketed One-A-Day WeightSmart next to unsubstantiated claims as well as that it increases organic process. The marketers of TrimSpa, Goen Techonologies, will pay $1.5 cardinal."
My Two Cents: I saw the small screen scheme altered copy of this story, and the correspondent aforesaid that the fare weight-loss commercial enterprise is a $1.3 cardinal a period commercial and the fines levied antagonistic these companies amounted to aught much than peanuts!
Question: Who's overseeing the FTC?
I mislaid 40 pounds in the yr 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 move into of 2007, I fixed weigh 170 pounds, and I did it all short buying any trickery particulate. You cognize how I did it? With the things that can't be purchased terminated the antagonistic and you can't get a prescription from your doctor! My glory in losing weight incorporated...discipline; sacrifice; fighting off attraction and peer-pressure...and conclude what? All of these virtues are during all of us...and they're FREE!