Press Releases

Three subsidiaries of Quaker State Corp. have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that ads for Quaker State's Slick 50 Engine Treatment were false and unsubstantiated. Under the terms of...

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will hold a NEWS CONFERENCE to announce a multi-agency, federal and state campaign called "Project Mousetrap." Mousetrap employs a new strategy to combat the...

WHAT: A conference kicking off "Project DETER." The goal of the conference is to begin a dialogue about how to protect people who are moving from welfare to work from consumer fraud that might target...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a comment period, the FTC has ruled on a petition...

As part of an ongoing nationwide law enforcement program to identify funeral homes that fail to comply with the Funeral Rule, the Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a funeral home...

A federal/state study of "short-filling" of milk, other dairy products and juice found that over 40 percent of the groups of packages inspected contained less product than stated on their labels --...

In response to a petition from the Center for Media Education, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission today released a letter that outlines several principles that it believes should generally...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval for a transaction from the following...

The Federal Trade Commission made public today the results of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide testing for 1,206 varieties of domestic cigarettes sold in 1994. The report to Congress, titled "Tar...

Four federal agencies, eight state Attorneys General officials, local law enforcers and consumer and civic organizations today announced 26 law enforcement actions against telemarketers who target...

Statement by Anthony Di Resta, Director Atlanta Regional Office Federal Trade Commission Good Morning. I'm grateful to all of you who are here this morning as we announce the results of "Peach Sweep,"...

In response to the decision of R.J. Reynolds to replace the Joe Camel advertising campaign, Jodie Bernstein, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection said, "We are...

Investment fraud is spreading to new fields -- from movie productions to Internet "shopping malls" to breeding snails for snail ranching -- and more traditional investment scams, such as pyramid...

Recent amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") will require consumer reporting agencies ("CRAs") or credit bureaus for the first time to provide to: 1) consumers a summary of their rights...

The Federal Trade Commission staff has closed its investigation of the proposed merger of The Boeing Company and McDonnell Douglas Corporation. The Commission has determined that no further action is...

It’s laundry day at the Federal Trade Commission and by mid-morning, clothing and laundry appliance manufacturers, retailers, detergent and bleach companies and other industry members will be...

The Federal Trade Commission's Competition Director today applauded the federal district court opinion in the Staples and Office Depot case. "Consumers have won today," said William J. Baer, the...

A company that sold bogus brokerage services to consumers who owned federal telecommunications licenses and four of its principals have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that a federal court has entered a final judgment against Worldwide Wallcoverings and Blinds, Inc., an Illinois corporation based in Northbrook. Last...

"Campaña Alerta," an innovative and unprecedented effort to prevent fraudulent advertisements directed at Spanish-speaking consumers, was announced today by officials from the Mexican government, the...