{"id":48,"date":"2007-03-04T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/once-again-diet-pill-retailers-fined-for-scummy-behavior\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T16:57:00","slug":"once-again-diet-pill-retailers-fined-for-scummy-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/once-again-diet-pill-retailers-fined-for-scummy-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, Diet Pill Retailers Fined For Scummy Behavior!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Sigh. Here we go again. Yup, the FTC has recently charged several companies with making false and unsubstantiated claims about their products. Fines run into the millions of dollars &#8212; and why shouldn&#8217;t they? After all, the unsuspecting public has been swindled of their cash and duped into  believing there&#8217;s some sort of magic pill for weight loss &#8212; which of course, does not exist. In some cases, the retailers had studies validating the efficacy of their products. Unfortunately, no such studies  existed.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">So who got fined?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">The marketers of CortiSlim and CortiStress &#8212; Window Rock Health Laboratories &#8212; got nailed with $12 million in fines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Trimspa, the makers of Trimspa X32, LipoSpa and several other high profile products got assessed  $ 1.5 million in fines (Trimspa and the now late Anna Nicole Smith have also been named in a class action suit&#8230; boy, has this company got some serious credibility problems!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Nutraquest (formerly Cytodyne) will be paying a between a whopping 8 and 12.8 million fines for the comments it made about its fat burner Xenadrine EFX.       <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">And lastly is Bayer Corp (yes, Bayer!) who will be handing over $3.2 million from its coffers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Is there anything the average. moderately-overweight consumer can learn from this? <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Absolutely&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Any retailer that makes claim contrary to common sense, any retailer that promises instant results with no effort on your part&#8230; well they&#8217;re only after one thing. A quick buck. Because in most cases, they cannot validate any of their claims with real science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">And that should concern you. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. Here we go again. Yup, the FTC has recently charged several companies with making false and unsubstantiated claims about their products. Fines run into the millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}