Deception in Weight-Loss Advertising Workshop: Seizing Opportunities and Building Partnerships to Stop Weight-Loss Fraud

摘要

This staff report provides a summary and analysis of the Federal Trade Commission's public workshop on Deception in Weight-Loss Advertising. It includes a detailed review and summary of the workshop discussion and relevant public comments submitted in conjunction with the workshop. It also sets forth the staff's recommendations for future FTC action. Accordingly, the goal of the workshop was to explore new approaches to stopping false weight-loss advertising. In particular, the workshop participants considered whether the FTC should compile a concise list of scientifically suspect claims found in weight-loss ads and discussed whether specific guidance identifying false claims could assist the industry and the media in eliminating false claims from weight-loss ads.