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Consumer
Information
- Aging Parents and Adult Children
Together (A/PACT) [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Avoiding the Muscle Hustle: Tips
for Buying Exercise Equipment [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Basik Lasik: Tips on Lasik Eye
Surgery [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Biothreats - Are Claims To Treat
Really Just A Trick? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Can Anti-Snoring Claims Be Cause
for Alarm? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Cigars: No Such Thing As a Safe
Smoke [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Diet & Fitness [TEXT]
- Generic Drugs: Saving Money at
the Pharmacy [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Guide to the Federal Trade Commission
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Health Spas: Exercise Your Rights
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Health Clubs (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Health Club Contracts (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Home-Use Tests For HIV Can Be
Inaccurate, FTC Warns [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Indoor Tanning [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Lotions and Potions: The Bottom
Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans [TEXT]
[PDF]
- 'Miracle' Health Claims: Add
a Dose of Skepticism [TEXT]
[PDF]
- More Than Once Upon a Mattress:
Used Bedding Labeling Rules [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Offers to Treat Biological Threats:
What You Need to Know [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Operation CURE-ALL [TEXT]
- Paunch Lines: Weight Loss Claims
Are No Joke For Dieters [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Project Waistline Campaign
[TEXT]
- Promotions for Kids' Dietary
Supplements Leave a Sour Taste [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Protecting Kids from the Sun
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Pump Fiction [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Rx for Products that Claim to
Prevent SARS? A Healthy Dose of Skepticism [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Setting Goals for Healthy Weight
Loss [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Sound Advice on Hearing Aids
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Sun-Protective Clothing: Wear
It Well [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Sunscreens and Sun-Protective
Clothing [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Test Your Supplement Savvy
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- The Truth About Impotence Treatment
Claims [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Tipping the Scales? Weight-Loss
Ads Found Heavy on Deception [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Top Ten Dot Cons: Consumer Information
[TEXT]
- Vision Correction Procedures
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Weight Loss: Finding a Weight
Loss Program That Works for You [PDF]
- Weight Loss Scams (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Who Cares: Sources of Info About
Health Care Products and Services [TEXT]
[PDF]
Business
Information
- Dietary Supplements: An Advertising
Guide for Industry [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Dietary Supplements
Advertising Cases (1984 - July
15, 2003) [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Deception in Weight-Loss Advertising Workshop:
Seizing Opportunities and Building Partnerships to Stop Weight-Loss Fraud
A federal trade commission staff
report (December 2003) [PDF]
- Red Flag: A Reference Guide for Media on Bogus
Weight Loss Claim Detection [PDF]
- Refractive Eye Surgery Advertising:
Guidance for Marketers [TEXT]
- Voluntary Guidelines for Providers
of Weight Loss Products or Services [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Weight Loss Advertising: An Analysis of Current
Trends
A federal trade commission staff
report (September 2002) [PDF]
Rules
and Acts
- Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco
Health Education Act of 1986 [TEXT]
Staff
Comments and Letters
- FTC Staff Comment on Draft Report
of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels
[TEXT]
- FDA/FTC Joint Letter on PRK
[TEXT]
- FTC Staff Comment on FDA Proposed
Rule on Statements Made for Dietary Supplements
[TEXT]
- Staff Report: Revised Federal
Trade Commission, Justice Department Policy [TEXT]
- Statements on Health Care Antritrust
Enforcement (8/96) [TEXT]
[PDF]
Workshops
- Commercial Weight Loss Products
and Programs: What Consumers Stand To Gain and Lose
[TEXT]
- FTC Weight Loss Advertising Workshop
[TEXT]
Business Resources
En
Español
- Afirmaciones sobre Curas "Milagrosas":
Añada una Dosis de Escepticismo [TEXT]
[PDF]
'Miracle' Health Claims: Add a Dose of Skepticism
- Amenazas Biológicas - ¿Serán
las promesas de tratamiento puro engaño? [TEXT]
[PDF]
Biothreats - Are Claims to Treat really just a trick?
- Bandera Roja: Afirmaciones Falsas Sobre Pérdida
de Peso
Una Guía de Referencia para los Medios de Comunicación
en Cómo Detectar Afirmaciones Falsas Sobre Pérdida
de Peso. [TEXT]
Red Flag: A Reference Guide for Media on Bogus
Weight Loss Claim Detection
- Cómo Evitar un Gasto Musculoso:
Consejos para Comprar Equipos de Ejercicios Físicos
[TEXT]
Avoiding the Muscle Hustle: Tips for Buying Exercise Equipment
- Dieta y Bienestar [TEXT]
Diet & Fitness Web site
- ¿Peleado con la Balanza?
Los Anuncios para Bajar de Peso Pueden Ser un Engaño Pesado
[PDF]
Tipping the Scales? Weight-Loss Ads Found Heavy on Deception
- Promesas Milagrosas
[PDF]
Amazing Claims Bookmark
- Quien ha Dormido en su Colchon:
Reglamentos Sobre Etiquetas Para Colchones Usados
[TEXT]
[PDF]
More Than Once Upon a Mattress: Used Bedding Labeling Rules
Last updated:
Monday, May 3, 2004
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