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Letter to FTC re: Request to Investigate Food Marketing to Children

CSPI and numerous other public health organizations and professionals urge the FTC to study 1. marketing expenditures by food and beverage companies to children and adolescents and 2. slotting fees, trade spend and other trade promotion practices in the retail grocery industry.

Healthy Kids
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New federal investigation looks into grocery industry marketing practices

Recently, the federal government requested that companies hand over confidential, multi-million-dollar contracts to assess potential harms to American consumers. This is not the ending to the newest spy movie. This is the beginning of the newest investigation into the grocery industry.

Healthy RetailJanuary 3, 2022Sara John, PhD
Letter of Intent to Sue Viacom re: Junk Food Marketing to Kids

CSPI hits marketing junk food to kids

Healthy KidsAugust 12, 2021
Letter to FTC Requesting Investigation into Grocery Industry Practices

Letter to FTC requesting investigation into grocery industry practices

The Center for Science in the Public Interest asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate trade promotion, category captains, and online practices in the grocery retail industry.

Healthy Retail
Mercola

FDA and FTC urged to bring enforcement proceedings against Joseph Mercola for false COVID-19 health claims

Online salesman Joseph Mercola falsely claims that at least 22 vitamins, supplements, and other products available for sale on his web site can prevent, treat, or cure COVID-19 infection, according to letters submitted today to the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and two nonprofit legal groups.

COVID-19July 21, 2020
Supplement Seller Mercola To Comply with FDA Instructions to Stop Marketing COVID-19 Cures

Letters re: Request for enforcement regarding false COVID-19 claims by Mercola Group

COVID-19
Antiviral

CSPI urges federal enforcement action against supplement manufacturers making illegal antiviral claims

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is asking the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to take enforcement action against companies trying to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic by claiming dietary supplements fight viruses.

SupplementsJune 4, 2020
CSPI Letters re: Antiviral Claims by Supplement Manufacturers

CSPI Letters re: Antiviral claims by supplement manufacturers

Supplements
Letter to FTC re: Supplements Marketed as Women's Fertility Aids

Letter to FTC re: Supplements marketed as women's fertility aids

CSPI writes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging the commission to pursue enforcement action against dietary supplements that claim to treat female infertility.

Supplements
CSPI Urges Continued FDA Crackdown on Supplements Marketed as Fertility Aids

Manufacturers of “fertility” supplements selling false hope

The pills and powders have unsubtle names like Pregnitude, OvaBoost, and Pink Stork. But an investigation by the Center for Science in the Public Interest of dietary supplements marketed as fertility aids for women found that there is no evidence that they help women become pregnant.

SupplementsNovember 15, 2019
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