Enzacta
TINA.org investigated Enzacta as part of its larger investigations into unsubstantiated disease-treatment claims and atypical income claims used by MLM companies.
To read more about TINA.org’s 2023 MLM Income Claims Investigation, click here.
To read more about TINA.org’s 2017 DSA Income Claims Investigation, click here.
To read more about TINA.org’s 2016 DSA Health Claims Investigation, click here.
How We Took Action
2024
February 14
As part of its 2023 investigation into 100 MLM companies, TINA.org notifies Enzacta of its findings that the company has used atypical income claims to market its business opportunity.
January 29
The DSSRC issues a case decision finding that Enzacta used atypical earnings claims to market its business opportunity and unsubstantiated health claims to market products.
2021
October 26
The FTC sends Enzacta a Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Money-Making Opportunities putting the company on formal notice that it is an unfair or deceptive trade practice to misrepresent that profits or earnings are the ordinary, typical or average profits or earnings made by participants, and to fail to disclose conditions affecting income, such as expenses borne by the participants, among other things.
June 30
TINA.org sends a letter, along with a list of more than 660 direct selling companies that includes Enzacta, to the FTC urging it to implement a penalty offense program targeting the direct selling industry and its market-wide practice of using deceptive earnings representations and false health claims.
2017
December 18
As part of its 2017 investigation into all DSA-member companies, TINA.org sends a letter to Enzacta regarding its use of false and unsubstantiated income claims to promote its business opportunity.
2016
November 22
As part of its 2016 investigation into all DSA-member companies selling nutritional supplements, TINA.org sends a letter to Enzacta regarding its use of inappropriate health claims to market products.
The Latest
MLMs Continue to Recruit with Deceptive Earnings Claims
TINA.org investigation finds 98% of MLMs using misleading income claims.
Illegal Health Claims By DSA Companies Still Litter Internet
More than 1,000 unsubstantiated health claims remain on the internet nine months after TINA.org’s investigation.