Commission Actions

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky testified today before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition on the topic of defense industry mergers and...

Three subsidiaries of Quaker State Corp. have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that ads for Quaker State's Slick 50 Engine Treatment were false and unsubstantiated. Under the terms of...

A significant number of firms in the invention promotion industry are perpetrating a massive fraud on middle American consumers by claiming they have the resources and corporate connections to...

The defendants in a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit which alleged that they deceptively sold business opportunities for vending machines that dispensed single-use disposable cameras, have agreed to...

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will hold a NEWS CONFERENCE to announce a multi-agency, federal and state campaign called "Project Mousetrap." Mousetrap employs a new strategy to combat the...

WHAT: A conference kicking off "Project DETER." The goal of the conference is to begin a dialogue about how to protect people who are moving from welfare to work from consumer fraud that might target...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a comment period, the FTC has ruled on a petition...

As part of an ongoing nationwide law enforcement program to identify funeral homes that fail to comply with the Funeral Rule, the Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a funeral home...

A federal/state study of "short-filling" of milk, other dairy products and juice found that over 40 percent of the groups of packages inspected contained less product than stated on their labels --...