Buy Walking VideosFTC Says Transdermal Products Do Not Cause Weight Loss
It looks like the company, Transdermal Products International, have been caught making false claims regarding their patches.
According to the FTC, Transdermal Products International Marketing Corporation and William H. Newbauer sold a supposed weight-loss patch to about two dozen domestic and foreign retailers, and provided them with sample deceptive advertising and bogus substantiation materials, including purported expert endorsements and clinical studies of their weight-loss patch by Marvin Kaplan. The retailers in turn used these materials to sell the weight-loss patches to consumers in the U.S. and abroad. The sample advertising made false or unsubstantiated claims about the product, including that it caused weight loss and that the main ingredient, sea kelp, had been approved by the FDA for weight loss.
There are over two million search results on the Internet for the words “weight loss patches.” Transdermal Products International surely isn’t the only company that is lying. They’re just the only one the FTC was able to catch.
Don’t trust any advert that tells you that you can lose weight just by taking its product.
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September 14th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Is that an actual picture they use? That’s quite striking–putting a weight loss patch on a beautiful woman in a beautiful piece of art.
September 14th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Misty,
No, I was the one who put the patch on the beautiful work of art. I was trying to show that we are beautiful, despite the size of our thighs.
Modigliani says so!
Laura