Business & Commerce

Proposed Consent Order for TruHeight Dietary Supplements

🇺🇸United States··Notice·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This proposed consent order addresses allegations against TruHeight for deceptive advertising practices related to their dietary supplements. The law affects businesses involved in marketing dietary products, focusing on preventing false claims about health benefits and misleading reviews.

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Key Changes

  • Prohibits deceptive height growth claims
  • Bans fake and incentive-driven reviews
  • Requires scientific substantiation for health claims

Obligations

What this law requires

critical

Respondents must not make representations about increased height and height growth unless they are non-misleading and substantiated by competent and reliable scientific evidence.

dietary supplement marketersadvertisers
prohibition
critical

Respondents must not make claims about the health benefits, performance, efficacy, safety, or side effects of their products, unless these claims are non-misleading and supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence.

dietary supplement marketersadvertisers
prohibition
high

Respondents must preserve any documents related to competent and reliable scientific evidence for their claims.

dietary supplement marketers
operational
high

Respondents must not misrepresent the existence of reviewers or their experience with the covered products.

dietary supplement marketersadvertisers
prohibition
critical

Respondents must not provide compensation or other incentives to consumers in exchange for writing consumer reviews conditioned on expressing a particular sentiment.

dietary supplement marketers
prohibition

Affected Parties

TruHeightDietary supplement marketers

Tags

consumer protection,advertising,dietary supplements