ACT Total Care Anticavity Fluoride Mouthwash

Deceptive Ads

Carrington Farms Brand Coconut Oil Products

5 Not-So-Natural Personal Care Products

With Earth Day right around the corner, here’s a handful of items whose earthy claims have been challenged.

Bagging Claims by Unofficial Oscar Swag Companies

Cue the play-off music.

InterCoast Career Institute’s Nursing Program in Maine

Promotional Gift Cards from Sleepy’s

Target Debit Card

The Snag in the Swag Bag

Academy tries to bring down curtains on Oscar gift bag claims

FTC: 15 Skin Care Companies Offering ‘Bogus’ Free Trials

Agency obtains restraining order against skin care marketers who it alleges repeatedly charged consumers.

Oprah’s Anti-Aging Secret? Not Likely

Website really links to Vitalie Skin Care Serum and Lumalift Eye Cream, which have secrets of their own.

Whose Choice Is it at Choice Hotels?

Consumer says he was misled with hotel chain’s summer promotion for a $50 gift card.

GE Capital to Pay Out Millions to Settle Deception Charges

CFPB cites bank for discriminatory and misleading practices.

Cancer Care: What Advertisements Are Not Saying

Study questions emotional appeals.

CarTagz.com – CA Registration Renewal

Trying to renew your car registration in California? A TINA.org reader wants to make sure you don’t get fooled by this Google ad: While trying to renew her registration, our…

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU)

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU), a unit of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, is the advertising industry’s primary self-regulatory organization responsible for monitoring ad content – across all media channels…

Health care price tags won’t find you the best doctor

Michael L. Millenson, STAT News

HP Ink and Toner Cartridges

Allegations: Failing to disclose that firmware updates would make non-HP cartridges incompatible with HP printers

Nips Caramel Hard Candies

Allegations: Misleadingly marketing caramel candies as “rich & creamy” when the candies do not contain butter or cream and the fat content comes almost exclusively from vegetable fat

Volkswagen Vehicles with Car-Net

Allegations: Failing to disclose that Car-Net was temporary because the system was equipped with 3G services and would become inoperable when 3G services were phased out