The FTC Needs to Implement a Deceptive Earnings Claims Rule

Consumers can’t afford to go it alone when it comes to atypical income claims.

TINA.org’s Year in Review 2023

Here’s what we accomplished in 2023 with your help.

TINA.org’s Year in Review 2025

Looking back at our accomplishments

USANA Income Claims Database

TINA.org Finds Plexus Deceptively Marketing Supplements for Kids

Distributors deceptively claim products boost childrens’ immune systems and may even keep them virus free.

TINA.org Complaint Throws Water on Stream’s Income Claims

TINA.org calls on regulators to put an end to Texas-based MLM’s illegal income claims once and for all.

TINA.org Fast-Tracks Team National’s Checkered Income Claims to FTC

The truth is — and the MLM admits — the vast majority of distributors make no income at all.

Prevagen’s Fishy Memory Claims Under Fire by Federal Regulators

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

TINA.org Warns Federal Agency about its False USA-Made Claims

Uncle Sam gets made in the USA claims wrong.

Walmart Website Dropping Made in USA Claims

FTC closes probe into Walmart Made in the USA claims following TINA.org complaint.

Phillips’ Colon Health’s Bloated Claims

DOJ alleges Bayer violated previous court order by making unsupported claims about product.

BeActive Brace Loses Some Sciatica Treatment Claims

Marketers make alterations to website after reportedly meeting with FDA officials.

FTC Deceptive Earnings Claims Comment

TINA.org submitted a comment to the FTC urging it to initiate a rulemaking prohibiting deceptive or unfair marketing using earnings claims.

Princeton Consumer Research

The bottom line? PCR works with companies to arrive at their desired results.

How a TINA.org Reader Tip Led to a Record Penalty for False Made in USA Claims

FTC says civil penalty against Williams-Sonoma is “the largest ever in a Made in USA case.”

Court Order Forces Prevagen to Scrub Memory-Improvement Claims

MADISON, CONN. Dec. 12, 2024— In a win for consumers, a court has ordered Quincy Bioscience to stop advertising Prevagen using memory-improvement claims. This follows a near-decade-long campaign by the…

2017 Talk Fusion Income Claims Database

TINA.org investigation reveals misleading income claims used to market MLM opportunity.

MLM Health Claims Audit Results

Audit results of TINA.org’s investigation of MLM health claims.

TINA.org Investigation Reveals MLM Industry Rife with Illegal Health Claims

MADISON, CONN. November 7, 2016 – Calling into question the Direct Selling Association’s commitment to consumer protection, a truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) investigation has revealed that 97 percent of DSA member companies…

Young Living Health Claims Database