FTC Staffing Up To Boost Consumer Health Fraud Enforcement
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Federal Trade Commission plans to add staff focused on enforcement against fraudulent dietary supplement claims in fiscal 2011
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