FTC Fines Diet Pill Makers Millions for Bogus Claims - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today: "WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 -- The Federal Trade Commission said today that it fined four makers of over-the-counter weight-loss products more than $25 million for false advertising, including a $3.2 million civil penalty against Bayer for claims made for One-A-Day Weight Smart.
FTC chairman Deborah Platt Majoras said the Bayer fine was the largest civil penalty ever levied by the agency.
She added that none of the four products involved -- One-A-Day Weight Smart, Xenadrine EFX, Cortislim, and TrimSpa -- posed a health risk to users. None was removed from store shelves.
The Bayer settlement, which was filed yesterday in U.S. Court in the District of New Jersey, came after Bayer had violated an earlier FTC order directing it to cease what Majoras said were bogus weight loss claims for its Weight Smart product, which added green tea extract to a standard multivitamin compound./.../"
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