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FDA and FTC Issue Joint Warning Letters for Copycat Delta-8 THC Food Products

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued warning letters on July 16, 2024, to five companies for illegally selling and introducing into the market copycat food products...more

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"Improper” Listing of Patents in the FDA’s Orange Book

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As we previously discussed, on November 7, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) sent warning letters to certain drug manufacturers regarding their purportedly improper listings of device patents in the Food and Drug...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Colorado AI Systems Regulation: What Health Care Deployers and Developers Need to Know

As the first state law to regulate the results of Artificial Intelligence System (AI System) use, Colorado’s SB24-205, “Concerning Consumer Protections in Interactions with Artificial Intelligence Systems” (the Act), has...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Insights – June 2024

Explore the unique considerations for mergers and acquisitions in the AI sector, the return of IPOs, the implications of new Supreme Court decisions and other developments in this edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

Health Halo Trend Continues With Poppi "Gut Healthy" Sodas

Late last month, San Francisco resident Kirstin Cobbs initiated a class action lawsuit against poppi after purchasing its product, poppi prebiotic soda, believing the product to be “gut healthy.” Poppi sodas are packaged in...more

Venable LLP

Mitigating Class Action Exposure: An Excerpt from the Advertising Law Tool Kit

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When it comes to mitigating the risk of class action lawsuits, the best offense is a good defense. Companies can take many steps to reduce their exposure to class action litigation before it happens, including the tactics...more

Hinch Newman LLP

Roundup of FTC Consumer Protection Matters of Interest to Digital Advertisers: March 2023

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In March 2023, the Federal Trade Commission announced a number of consumer protection actions involving data privacy, COVID health claims, a robocall debt relief pitch scheme, and alleged harmful noncompete restrictions. The...more

King & Spalding

It’s Not Just for Dietary Supplements Anymore: FTC Revises and Expands Guidance for Health Claims

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Signaling a renewed focus on consumer protection in the health claims space, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has revamped its 1998 guidance titled Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry and extended the...more

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Titanium Dioxide: The Latest Target in Consumer Class-Action Lawsuits

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Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a naturally occurring white powder used to boost colors in a wide range of food and non-food consumer products, making colors look brighter and more defined. It can also be used as a white pigment,...more

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Recent DOJ Consumer Protection Branch Cases Highlight the Branch’s Enforcement Priorities

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The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Consumer Protection Branch works with other branches and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute civil and criminal violations of the nation’s consumer protection...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Can’t Dismiss Lanham Act Claim Based on FDCA Preemption

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The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed-in-part and vacated-in-part a district court ruling dismissing claims under the Lanham Act and Massachusetts consumer protection law based on statements on a website...more

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State AGs Urge FDA to Listen Up and Preserve The States’ Consumer Protection Authority

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On January 18, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to expressly ensure that state attorneys general (State AGs) continue to have...more

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Federal Hemp Legislation Outlook: What’s on the Horizon for 2022?

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Hemp was federally legalized nearly four years ago. Since then, the industry has dealt with constantly changing rules, despite being in regulatory purgatory due to snail-paced progress from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration...more

MoFo Life Sciences

Key Takeaways From FDLI's Enforcement, Litigation, And Compliance Conference Keynote Address

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FDLI hosted a virtual conference December 9–10, 2021. The keynote address was given by Arun Rao, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). Arun Rao discussed the efforts of the...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA and FTC Coordination Appears to Be Escalating

Agencies of the federal government with a consumer protection mission have always tended to work closely together and to share information, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made those cooperative efforts even more visible to the...more

Cozen O'Connor

Testimony Against Flavored Tobacco | Affordable Cellular Service | McKinsey Settles Over Opioid Role

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2022 AG Elections- Arkansas Lt. Governor Announces Intent to Run for Attorney General- •Arkansas Republican Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin announced that he is dropping his gubernatorial bid and is running for...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update l August 2020 #4

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has proposed a rule that would codify the legalization of hemp cultivation and related definitions passed in the 2018 Farm Bill into the Controlled Substances Act. The amendments...more

Cozen O'Connor

COVID-19 Drug Availability | Federal Banking Rule vs. State Usury Laws | Kickbacks For Pain Meds

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COVID-19- Bipartisan Group of Attorneys General Seeks to Expand Production of Antiviral Drug- A bipartisan group of 34 AGs, led by California AG Xavier Becerra and Louisiana AG Jeff Landry, sent a letter urging the U.S....more

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FDA, FTC Actions Against COVID-19 Products Continue With Florida TRO

A federal court in Florida has entered a temporary restraining order against the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing (Genesis) and four principals associated with the entity. The order requires defendants to immediately...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

FDA Places Two Food Orders on Restaurants’ Tables

The food industry has been upended by the recent COVID-19 pandemic – restaurants and bars are scrambling to adjust to a new way of life after governors across America issued statewide “stay at home” orders in response to the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

False Advertising: Changing Your Business To Meet Market Needs During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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From severe shortages in medical masks and ventilation equipment worldwide to the curious “toilet paper desert” in America,  COVID-19 is creating temporary and long-term disruptions in the availability of both highly...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Product Liability 2019 Year in Review

Massachusetts state and federal courts issued a number of important product liability decisions in 2019. The Product Liability practice group at Nutter recently reviewed these cases. Highlighted below are some of the key...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Injured Patients Want Consolidation of Zantac Lawsuits

Litigation Update - On January 30, 2020, class action, consumer protection and pharmaceutical lawyers from around the country will be in federal court in Tampa, Florida to argue before a panel of federal judges whether...more

King & Spalding

Eleventh Circuit Rules That the Mere Purchase of Dietary Supplements Allegedly Sold in Violation of the FDCA Is Sufficient, by...

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A recent Eleventh Circuit decision took a broad view of what type of economic injury is sufficient to confer Article III standing, concluding that two dietary supplement companies’ alleged violations of a federal statute...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update l December 2019

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - FDA Issues Warning Letters, Consumer Update On CBD, Sparking Litigation Against CBD Cos. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a consumer update on cannabidiol...more

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