Consumer Health Fraud: Collidial Silver A Pandemic Repeat Offender
Executive Summary
COVID-19 makes silver a gift that keeps on giving for US regulators with another business closed by court order; Seattle area naturopath charged with selling misbranded drug as a virus prevention; FTC reaches settlements with operators of “free trial” schemes for cosmetics and supplements; FDA announces criminal convictions of two men who defrauded the agency by misbranding steroid drugs they sold OTC.
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