Supplement Firms Agree To Leave Market After Being Released From FTC Contempt Complaint

FTC announces Health Research Laboratories, Whole Body Supplements and their owner, Kramer Duhon, agree to settlement in administrative proceeding opened in November 2020 after federal judge dismissed contempt complaint from 2018 settlement.

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Two dietary supplement firms and their owner agreed to a second settlement with the Federal Trade Commission after a federal judge ruled that terms the agency commonly uses to define noncompliant supplement claims were vague and unenforceable as a stipulation in a previous settlement.

The FTC on 16 March announced that Health Research Laboratories, LLC, Whole Body Supplements, LLC, and their owner and officer...

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