Marketers exploit the aged with unproven brain-health claims

Rick Schmitt, Newsweek

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Bio X4

Unpalatable online ad raises questions about weight-loss supplement.

Memory supplement from jellyfish doesn’t work, FTC says

Herb Weisbaum, Komo News

Prevagen’s Fishy Memory Claims Under Fire by Federal Regulators

Five things you should know about the FTC, New York lawsuit against Prevagen.

Joint Juice Dietary Supplements

Various Bodybuilding Dietary Supplements: Tren 75, Winn50, Test 600x, Clen, Var, and Decca 200

Jeunesse, Top Leaders Face Second Pyramid Lawsuit

Lawsuit alleges Jeunesse is preying on Chinese-American immigrants.

Michael Lindell, MyPillow Inventor: 5 Fast Facts

Daniel S. Levine, Heavy

Better Business Bureau Accuses ‘MyPillow’ of ‘Deceptive’ Advertising

Miguel Almaguer/Lester Holt, NBC News

My Pillow,’ the infomercial sensation, flunks out of Better Business Bureau

Drew Harwell, Chicago Tribune

My Pillow, the infomercial sensation, flunks out of Better Business Bureau

Derek Hawkins, Washington Post

BBB revokes MyPillow accreditation

ABC 10

Ad Trends TINA.org Will Be Watching in 2017

A closer look at what we’ll be scrutinizing in the new year.

X2Zero

FDA alerts supplement marketer to a laundry list of violations.

Responses from Companies

Energy Drink Company Exposed by Ad Watchdog TINA.org Settles FTC Pyramid Case

MADISON, CONN. December 16, 2016 – Vemma Nutrition, an Arizona-based multi-level marketing (MLM) company that the Federal Trade Commission labeled a pyramid scheme in a lawsuit filed last year, has…

Vemma Reaches $238 Million Settlement with FTC

Company agrees to a ban on pyramid scheme practices to settle charges.

Merck – Coppertone Sunscreen

Capillus Laser Hats

Taking the lid off company’s claims that laser hats are “FDA cleared” and “clinically proven” to regrow hair.