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Husch Blackwell LLP

Chocolate Therapy: The Legal Limits of Mood and Sleep Claims in Functional Foods

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Functional foods designed to promote relaxation, better sleep, and improved mood have exploded in popularity, and chocolate is increasingly the delivery method of choice. Calming confections featuring ingredients like...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FDA Releases Updated Directory on Select Dietary Supplement Ingredients

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Whether a consumer is taking calcium carbonate for strong bones, magnesium to fall asleep, or high-dose caffeine to stay awake, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not approve dietary supplements for safety and...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Patients Report Stomach Paralysis and Other Serious Side Effects After Taking Popular Weight-Loss Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy

Are you a diabetes patient who took Ozempic? Did you take Wegovy in hopes of losing weight? Have you suffered life-changing gastrointestinal issues since you’ve been taking Ozempic or Wegovy? If so, you are not alone....more

King & Spalding

It’s Not Just for Dietary Supplements Anymore: FTC Revises and Expands Guidance for Health Claims

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Signaling a renewed focus on consumer protection in the health claims space, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has revamped its 1998 guidance titled Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry and extended the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

FDA Aggressively Monitoring and Pursuing Advertisements Touting Treatments, Preventions and Cures for COVID-19

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Companies should use caution when making efficacy claims in marketing and advertising of dietary supplements, foods, biological products and other products purported to treat or prevent COVID-19. ...more

Hogan Lovells

FTC takes on deceptive stem cell therapy claims for blindness cure and autism treatment

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On October 18, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it settled charges against California-based Regenerative Medical Group, Telehealth Medical Group, and the founder of both companies, Dr. Bryn Jarald Henderson, based...more

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