
FTC to MLMs: You Lie, You Pay
The agency puts the MLM industry on notice.
During the week of February 4, 2013, digestion, food, and make-up bubbled to the top of the legal I-think-you’re-lying-to-me landscape.
Three new false advertising class actions were filed:
Time to say farewell to two deceptive cases:
Finally, on to diaper rash — competing diaper rash ointment maker, Johnson & Johnson, complained to NAD, an advertising self-regulatory division of the BBB, about superiority claims made by Summers Laboratories, which makes Triple Paste Medicated Diaper Rash Ointment. NAD agreed with Johnson’s complaints and told Summers to stop making claims such as “Recommended by pediatricians and dermatologists when other treatments fail.” This past week, NAD referred the investigation to the FTC because Summers Laboratories refuses to stop advertising its ointment as better than others. No doubt, Johnson & Johnson has its panties in a twist over this one.
The agency puts the MLM industry on notice.
Trade organization campaign features deceptive income claims.
When it came to keeping ads honest in 2017, TINA.org was plenty busy.