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PATIENT PRIVACY IN AN ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA
As the cannabis industry continues to navigate choppy economic and legal waters into 2024, some cannabis companies are pivoting to the smokable herbs market. And I do not mean to those hemp-derived intoxicating cannabinoids...more
FDA and FTC Issue Cease and Desist Letters to Companies Selling Delta-8 Edibles - On July 5, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly sent cease and desist letters to six companies...more
The title of this series is an homage to the great Lesley Fair, who launched and authors many of the best of the FTC’s business blogs and who coined this term in her blog reviewing 2013 cases on the same topic. But we are...more
With the passing of the 2018 Farm Bill, the market for cannabis pet products has rapidly grown. As a result, broad-reaching marketing campaigns highlighting the available products and the claimed benefits have become much...more
They can if you operate in a regulated industry, such as pharma, med devices, cannabis, dietary supplements, etc. FDA has specific labeling requirements for products and they look at hashtags related to products the same...more
If you are trying to navigate the space where hemp products intersects with animal products, it can be unclear as to which authority to turn to for guidance. In the United States, FDA, FTC, DEA and USDA share governance over...more
With everyone worrying about the coronavirus and the flu this time of year, it is not surprising that last month the Food and Drug Administration issued a Warning Letter against the manufacturer of a well-established...more
Recently, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued joint warning letters to four sellers of e-liquids, the nicotine “juice” used in vaping regarding their use of social media...more
Consumer class actions involving goods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) coexist in parallel with FDA enforcement efforts. Consumers have no private right of action to enforce the Food, Drug, and...more
Where’s the love? Apparently, not at the FDA. On September 22 the FDA issued Warning Letter CMS# 532236 to Nashoba Brook Bakery, of Concord, Mass. Among several infractions cited in the letter was one for the misbranding...more
In the 1972 hit, “You Wear it Well,” Rod Stewart sang about a woman and offered the classic line, “Madame Onassis got nothing on you.” The tune came to mind when reading four Warning Letters issued by the Food and Drug...more
Updated to clarify that this post is not about Green Seal, Inc. but the environmental seals or certifications warned against in a recent FTC update. Manufacturers of consumer products labeled with unspecified environmental...more
Three years ago, in United States v. Caronia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) neither prohibits nor criminalizes truthful, nonmisleading speech that...more