Press Releases

Commission approval of amicus brief filing: The Commission has approved the filing of an amicus brief jointly with the U.S. Department of Justice in the matter concerning Hoffmann-LaRoche, Ltd. v...

The Fountain of Youth Group, LLC, and its principal, Edita Kaye, have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated weight-loss and health claims for their dietary...

The Federal Trade Commission staff today announced the results of a sweep of 10 funeral homes in the Northern Houston Metropolitan Area and Montgomery County to test for compliance with the FTC’s...

Publication of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved joint final rules with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, setting effective dates for provisions of the Fair and...

Budget request and GPRA Performance Plans submission to Congress: The Commission has approved the following documents and forwarded a copy of each to Congress: 1) the FTC’s FY 2005 Budget Overview...

American Eagle Placements, based in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and its owner, Forrest Adams entered into a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that bans them from advertising or selling...

Nearly 20,000 borrowers will receive a second compensation check this week from a redress fund that resulted from the FTC’s settlement with home mortgage lender First Alliance Mortgage Company and its...

The Federal Trade Commission today released a staff analysis of horizontal merger investigations for fiscal years 1996 to 2003. The merger data released contains tabulated market share and...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the filing of a federal district court complaint against an Arizona-based company and its principals for allegedly violating the FTC Act and the...

The sixth annual National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) is February 1-7, 2004. Each year, NCPW highlights consumer protection and education efforts across the country. The theme for this year’s...

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)...

The United States Federal Trade Commission and 36 additional agencies in 26 countries today announced “Operation Secure Your Server,” an international effort to reduce the flow of unsolicited...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Competition, and Bureau of Economics have sent a letter to Alabama House of Representatives Speaker Pro Tempore, Demetrius C. Newton...

The Federal Trade Commission today issued its third quarterly summary announcement detailing the agency’s continued enforcement against telemarketing fraud and abuse. The quarterly enforcement summary...

In response to an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission has submitted a comment to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) addressing how “qualified...

As required by the CAN-SPAM Act, the Federal Trade Commission today announced a proposal to establish a mark or notice that will be required for inclusion in spam that contains sexually oriented...

Beginning January 29, 2004, telemarketers must transmit Caller ID information in order to comply with the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). This information will help...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new consumer alert, “Who’s Spamming Who? Could it be You?,” that warns consumers of spammers who may be compromising other people’s computers to send...

Commission authorization of the staff to file amicus brief: The Commission has authorized the staff of the FTC’s Office of General Counsel to file an amicus brief in the matter of Rausch et al. v. The...

The Federal Trade Commission has released its annual report detailing consumer complaints about identity theft and listing the top 10 fraud complaint categories reported by consumers in 2003. For the...