Supplements Mixed With Direct Selling A Recipe Ripe For Cooking US FTC Regulation Violations
Executive Summary
Doesn’t take long to find health and wellness product marketers on list of direct sellers or find firms offering those products in the FTC's history of enforcement actions in the sector.
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