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By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
January 31, 2007

FTC Cracks Down on Diet Aid Manufacturers

Bayer HealthCare agreed in January to pay $3.2 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) suit charging it ran misleading advertisements for its One-A-Day Weight-Smart' vitamins. The FTC charged that print and television advertisements for the supplements made unsupported claims that the green tea extract in One-A-Day WeightSmart speeds up the metabolisms of people over 30 years old. All such claims violated a 1991 FTC consent order with Miles Laboratories, Bayer's predecessor. With the settlement, Bayer joins three other diet supplement manufacturers (Window Rock Enterprises Corti Slim' and Corti Stress'); RTC Research & Development (Xenadrine EFX'); and Nutramerica Corp., Goen Technologies Corp. (Trim Spa')) that have recently settled similar claims with the FTC.

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