Green Tea Hawaii

Fat burning claims challenged.

Company Investigated by truthinadvertising.org Comes Under Fire Again

MADISON, CT., Aug. 15, 2013 — A company investigated by advertising watchdog group truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) is under fire again for deceptive marketing of a children’s supplement. A key advertising self-regulatory…

Ad Board Tells NourishLife to Stop Deceptive Claims

NAD rules child-supplement maker must make changes to its marketing.

BPI Sports

BPI Sports, a supplement company, discontinued some of its advertising claims after the claims were challenged by the Council for Responsible Nutrition. The National Advertising Division (NAD) is the advertising…

Prego Spaghetti Sauce

Tropicana

Tropicana claimed in a television ad that “if you want the world’s best fruit and vegetable juice, look in the cooler” as a shelf collapsed to reveal a presumably more-stable…

Is that a Real Query Result or a Paid Ad?

FTC tells search engines to distinguish sponsored results.

Twitter Apologizes for Fake Tweets Used in Ads

Users who never sent tweets outraged.

Lumosity

Lumosity will pay $2 million back to customers to settle federal charges it deceived consumers with unfounded claims that its brain games could help improve mental performance.

Zombie Endorsements

Deceased actors brought back to star in advertisements.

Ads of a Different Color

“Native advertising” blurs lines between ads and content.

Are All Alcohol Ads Misleading?

I was surprised when I learned that there are no specific rules or regulations governing alcohol advertising on television.  While tobacco products are prohibited from advertising on TV altogether, it’s…

Potiga

The FDA has warned consumers that anti-seizure medication Potiga can cause blue discoloration of the skin and pigment changes in the eye, and that pigment changes in the eye can…

Oz Watch: TV Host Pulls Curtain on Phony Endorsements

Talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz asks viewers for help.

ShopNBC’s Fine Print

Consumers complain about shopping network’s practices.

Changes to Used-Car “Buyers Guide” Could Leaves Drivers Stuck

The FTC proposed changes to their Used Car Rule, but consumers groups are unhappy with the revisions.

Are Mattress Claims Keeping You Up at Night?

The NAD ruled that Tempur-pedic could no longer claim their mattresses “sleep cooler”.

NAD advises Synaptol to change advertising

The The National Advertising Division (NAD) is the advertising industry’s self-regulatory body administered by the Council of Better Business Bureaus., the investigative unit of the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation,…

I’d Tap That

Bottled water is convenient, but is it worth the cost?

Bayer Healthcare