Stresses Continued Aggressive Enforcement The Federal Trade Commission's current antitrust enforcement efforts were placed in historical perspective in a major speech delivered yesterday by Joe Simons...

Approximately 1,800 Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio consumers will receive letters this week notifying them they may qualify to receive redress under the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission's...

What: NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY DAY Who: The Federal Trade Commission’s Cyber Security Web site provides tips, brochures, a "Kidz Quiz," "Dewie" the e-turtle mascot, and consumer education material...

Operators who used spam, deceptive earnings claims, and fictitious testimonials to sell spam e-mail lists as business opportunities have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their...

A New Jersey-based testing laboratory has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges over its role in providing false test results for a purported do-it-yourself home anthrax test. Sani-Pure...

The Federal Trade Commission today authorized its staff to seek a preliminary injunction in federal district court to block the proposed acquisition of Claussen Pickle Company (Claussen) by private...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged a Toronto-based company with eight telemarketing boiler rooms with operating a fraudulent advance-fee credit card business. The defendants' telemarketers told...

Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to clear away unnecessary roadblocks to the approval of generic drug products. I am encouraged by the FDA's important action to address the...

According to the staff of the Federal Trade Commission, a bill pending before the Ohio legislature that seeks to authorize competing physicians to engage in collective bargaining with health plans...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice today announced times, location, and participants for final roundtable discussions in their joint hearings on...

Joe Simons, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, today announced the second scheduled Workshop on Merger Remedies. The workshop, which is being co-hosted by the Antitrust...

To help businesses understand and comply with its May 2002 Financial Information Safeguards Rule, the Federal Trade Commission has issued a new "Facts for Business" publication, Financial Institutions...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved the issuance of a final consent order in the matter concerning Libbey Inc. and Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. The Commission vote to approve the...

As old man winter bears down on much of the U.S., the FTC has revised and reissued its Consumer Alert, Weathering the High Cost of Heating Your Home. News reports indicate that heating bills are...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved the issuance of final consent orders and responses to the commenters of record in the matters concerning Philips Electronics and Okie...

Providing Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, Chairman Timothy J. Muris presented the results of...

The Federal Trade Commission's Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, J. Howard Beales, III, yesterday told a Senate subcommittee that although some dietary supplements offer the potential for...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced it has settled a complaint alleging that unscrupulous marketers misled thousands of consumers into paying $480 apiece for a worthless medical billing work...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it, along with the Illinois Attorney General's office, has reached a settlement with 1st Financial Solutions, Inc., which allegedly used a nationwide...

The Pendleton Group, Inc., and its principal, James C. Caouette, have agreed to a settlement that permanently bans them from selling non-durable office supplies, and are required to pay $35,000 for...