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ARTICLE · 20 NOVEMBER 2020

FTC Sends More Warning Letters Over COVID-19 Claims

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The Federal Trade Commission announced that it sent warning letters to twenty more marketers, telling them to stop making unsubstantiated claims...

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The Federal Trade Commission announced that it sent warning letters to twenty more marketers, telling them to stop making unsubstantiated claims that their products or therapies can prevent or treat COVID-19.  Since the beginning of the pandemic, the FTC has sent warning letters related to COVID-19 claims to more than 330 marketers. 

The FTC challenged claims related to a wide range of products -- everything from claims that consumers should wear beaded bracelets to "boost their immunity" to claims that consumers should drink from copper water bottles "because any germs or bacteria that land on the bottle will be destroyed on impact." 

One warning letter that is of particular interest relates to advertising by Camp TUF for its online and in-person fitness classes and personal training.  Even though exercise is widely recognized as being good for your health, and as something that can help your immune system, the FTC objected to the Camp TUF's claims that

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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