Press Releases

Commission approval of petition to reopen and modify final order: The Commission has approved a petition from Aventis S.A. (Aventis), the successor company to Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (RP)...

Representatives from 23 countries today assembled in Washington, DC for a two-day conference on consumer dispute resolution and redress. The conference is being hosted by the Federal Trade Commission...

Publication of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register that would amend the Telemarketing Sales Rule to revise...

Commission approval of final consent order: Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved the issuance of a final consent order in the matter concerning Nationwide Mortgage Group, Inc...

NOTE: Subsequent to the issuance of this press release, Congress eliminated the five-year time limit on Do Not Call registrations. R egistrations never expire. Once you add a number to the Do Not Call...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General of California have asked a U.S. District Court Judge to order a halt to an operation that sent millions of illegal spam messages touting mortgage...

FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today told the Senate Judiciary Committee that despite the fact that data brokers may provide a valuable service both to business and government entities, “There are...

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 Capital Acquisition &...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...