Sunrider
TINA.org investigated Sunrider 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 Sunrider of its findings that the company has used atypical income claims to market its business opportunity.
2023
April 13
The FTC sends Sunrider a Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Substantiation putting the company on formal notice that it is unlawful to, among other things, make claims relating to the health benefits, safety, and effectiveness of products without competent and reliable scientific evidence to support them, and that disease-treatment claims must be substantiated by at least one randomized, controlled, and double-blinded human clinical trial of the product.
2022
November 17
The DSSRC issues a case decision finding that Sunrider uses atypical earnings claims to market its business opportunity and unsubstantiated health claims to market products.
2021
October 26
The FTC sends Sunrider 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 the 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 Sunrider, 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 21
Sunrider responds to TINA.org’s 2017 income claims findings.
December 18
As part of its 2017 investigation into all DSA-member companies, TINA.org sends a letter to Sunrider 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 Sunrider regarding its use of inappropriate health claims to market products.
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