Nutrisystem's sale to Tivity Health comes after a year of expanding its nutritional products and related services with daily vitamin packs, nutritional bars and shakes and genetic-based analysis for a personal action plan focused on eating behaviors, nutrition and metabolism. Tivity's move into providing products, though, didn’t go over well with investors.

Bayer will sell Coppertone sunscreen and Dr. Scholl’s foot care brands to focus on growing its core consumer health brands. Although the plan represents ‘failure” in turning around sales for both brands, it is a ‘sensible’ move, say analysts.

Bayer will sell Coppertone sunscreen and Dr. Scholl’s foot care brands to focus on growing its core consumer health brands. Although the plan represents ‘failure” in turning around sales for both brands, it is a ‘sensible’ move, say analysts.

Eli Consumer Healthcare is latest supplement marketer National Advertising Division has advised that tests of separate ingredients do not support claims for a whole product. Following NADs review of TummyZen claims on challenge by Tums firm GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Consumer appeals NAD's recommendations to discontinue claims that its supplement “stops acid production,” is “acid inhibiting,” “halts the secretion of chloride ions in your parietal cells to regulate the release of acid into your stomach,” “supports stomach lining” and is “long lasting."

Nutrisystem's sale to Tivity Health comes after a year of expanding its nutritional products and related services with daily vitamin packs, nutritional bars and shakes and genetic-based analysis for a personal action plan focused on eating behaviors, nutrition and metabolism. Tivity's move into providing products, though, didn’t go over well with investors.

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Company needs to get beyond a supply problem for products including iconic Bayer Aspirin brand and heat up Coppertone sun care and sunscreen product sales with line extensions to help drive the consumer health business to heights envisioned as part of an expansion a few years ago.

Big pharmas' recent third-quarter results and commentaries point to sales drivers for consumer health divisions coming from markets outside their established primary markets of US and Europe. Consumer unit lines include oral care and topicals as well as nutritional products.

Importer Pure Assay Ingredients, owners Lynn Chau and Bao Luu charged in seven-count indictment with conspiring to deceive US Customs with stimulants labeled as melatonin, sucralose or other dietary ingredients. Also charged are two Chinese citizens who worked for Pure Assay in Chengdu, China, to bring the illegal substances to the US.

FTC on consecutive days announced court order closing a California business allegedly charging consumers for products and enrolling them in negative-option continuity plans without their consent after they responded to bogus free trial online offers, and started mailing 16,596 checks totaling more than $750,000 to consumers who bought deceptively marketed supplements from a Maine firm that also lured customers with a free trial pitch.

FTC proposes settlements with marketing and public relations firm Creaxion and Inside Publications over regulatory violations in advertising for Fit Organic Mosquito Repellent including failing to disclose US Olympic gymnasts as paid social medial endorsers and misrepresenting that paid commercial ads are opinions from an independent or objective publishers or sources.