According to a Federal Trade Commission staff report released today the number of obviously false weight-loss claims in television, radio, and print advertisements for dietary supplements, topical...

Commission authorization of the staff to file amended complaints: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amended complaint in the matter currently pending against World Traders Association...

In the wake of extensive damage caused by flooding, home repair rip-off artists can prey on consumers desperate to get their property back in shape. Anxious to get the work done quickly and get their...

Commission response to Food and Drug Administration citizen petition: The Commission has authorized the submission of a response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding a citizen...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged two groups of California-based defendants working together with duping hundreds of consumers into buying “Internet kiosk” business opportunities with promises...

Under the terms of a consent order with the Federal Trade Commission announced today, a Chicago-area physicians’ group has agreed to stop collectively bargaining on behalf of its members, as such...

Commission approval proposed divestiture: The Commission has approved a proposed divestiture from Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) and Dan L. Duncan related to the FTC’s decision and...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted two separate settlements against companies that, the Commission alleged, deceived Spanish-speaking consumers responding to ads for low-cost computer systems...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today issued the agency’s annual report at the Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law in Washington, DC. The...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras has appointed Lydia B. Parnes to be Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP). Parnes, who was named Acting Bureau Director by then...

Operators who sent millions of illegal e-mail messages to market their bogus diet patch have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that their operation violated federal laws, including the CAN-SPAM...

Three operations that scammed consumers out of more than one hundred million dollars by falsely promising easy debt relief have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that their business practices...

Petition to reopen proceedings and modify decision and order: The Commission has received a petition to reopen and modify the final decision and order in the 2003 transaction concerning Nestlé...

A federal district court has barred a Colorado-based mortgage broker from making false claims about home mortgage financing services and ordered him to pay consumer redress following Federal Trade...

What: Press conference to announce three law enforcement actions targeting deceptive and misleading debt-related services. The FTC charged that the operations scammed consumers out of more than $100...

On Tuesday, April 19, 2005, the Federal Trade Commission, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law, and the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host a...

Withdrawal of petition for approval of proposed divestiture: Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (Magellan) has filed a petition withdrawing its request that the Commission approve the proposed...

AmeriDebt, Inc. will shut down its debt management operation as part of a settlement of Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers into paying at least $170 million in hidden fees...

In a comment submitted today to the Department of the Treasury’s United States Mint, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Bureau of Economics, and Office of...

The Federal Trade Commission testified today before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection that “recent security breaches have raised...