14 Jun, 2024 Event in Review: Why Can They Say That, but I Can’t? How to Challenge Your Competitors’ Advertising While Avoiding Being Targeted By Shahin Rothermel Claudia Lewis Losing market share to a competitor touting its superiority makes your job harder and is frustrating, particularly when those claims are...
08 Apr, 2024 NAD Issues Decision Addressing “Clean,” “Ethically and Sustainably Sourced,” and Efficacy Claims for Amyris Clean Beauty's Biossance Skincare Products By Shahin Rothermel By Shahin O. Rothermel, Richard Starr & Nicole Yapp Last month, the National Advertising Division of BBB National Programs (NAD)...
26 Mar, 2024 New York Attorney General Says JBS Net Zero Claims Are Greenwashing By Len Gordon By Leonard L. Gordon, Kaelyne Yumul Wietelman & Ellis McKennie Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against...
20 Mar, 2024 Are Your Aspirations Attainable? New York Attorney General Challenges “Net Zero” Claims By Ronald Urbach Alexa Meera Singh 63% of Americans are influenced by a corporation’s environmental reputation when making purchasing decisions – and 48% of Americans “have...
02 Jun, 2023 Talking Trash: Takeaways from FTC Workshop on Recyclable Claims By Ronald Urbach Alexa Meera Singh The FTC is in the process of reviewing – and potentially revising – its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (Green...
11 Jul, 2022 District Court to New York Attorney General: “No Personal Jurisdiction Piggybacking” By Len Gordon By Leonard L. Gordon & Peter Kim This week, a New York district court, in FTC v. Quincy Bioscience Holding Co., granted an individual...
03 Feb, 2021 Claims in Medicinal Product Advertising Deemed Misleading Likely to Constitute an Unfair Commercial Practice By Ricardo Henriques Sofia Agostinho On the 8th of January of 2021, the Advertising Ethics Jury of the Self-Regulating entity was presented with a dispute to decide on the...
27 Mar, 2020 Claim substantiation in Cleaning Product Advertisement By Ricardo Henriques On the 26th of February of 2020, the Advertising Ethics Jury of the Self-Regulating entity, was presented with a dispute to decide on the...
03 Nov, 2019 $40 Million Reasons to Have RCTs By Len Gordon By Len Gordon, Mary Gardner, and Gary Dunn On September 18, 2019, the FTC prevailed in its long-waged battle against Hi-Tech...