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.
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.
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.
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.
