Commission Actions

Tema: Un taller para explorar el impacto de la publicidad engañosa de productos para perder peso sobre la salud pública y nuevos enfoques para luchar contra la proliferación de afirmaciones...

WHAT: A workshop to explore the impact that deceptive weight-loss product advertising has on public health and new approaches for fighting the proliferation of false, misleading, and unsubstantiated...

Blue Stuff, Inc., McClung Advertising, Inc., and their president, Jack McClung, have agreed to pay $3 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made unsubstantiated claims that Blue...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged three Canadian telemarketing companies operating boiler rooms in Quebec and Ontario with engaging in fraudulent business practices in the sale of business...

The Federal Trade Commission today released the materials relating to the workshop on Health Care Competition Law and Policy, held on September 9-10, 2002. The workshop focused on the implications of...

In a landmark settlement, Access Resource Services, Inc. (ARS) and Psychic Readers Network, Inc. (PRN) have agreed to a stipulated court order stopping all collection efforts on accounts or claims...

On Thursday November 14, 2002, the Federal Trade Commission will hold a press conference to announce one of the largest settlements in the FTC's history against companies that misled consumers with...

The investigation into the acquisition by The Kroger Company ("Kroger") of 18 supermarkets from Raley's Corporation in the Las Vegas, Nevada area has been closed. (1) The Commission staff's...

The Federal Trade Commission and 12 federal, state, and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies today announced a four-part initiative launched to fight deceptive spam and Internet...