FTC Suggests Firms Keep Claim Substantiation Documents Ready For Review
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
A consent-order requirement that Martek and i-Health retain and make available for inspection all supporting documents for claims substantiation should be a best practice for the supplement industry, an FTC lawyer says. The agency likely will dig deeper into underlying statistical analyses of studies than the peer-review panels of journals.
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