False HIV home test kits
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Cyberlinx Marketing settles FTC charges the Internet company falsely represented HIV home test kits as accurately detecting HIV. Under the stipulated final settlement order, Cyberlinx and its president, Jeffrey Stein, are banned from marketing HIV home test kits and must reimburse the money received from the sale of the kits within 10 days. The order also prohibits the defendants from transferring, disclosing, or selling information regarding any person who paid money to either of them at any time prior to entry of the order in connection with the purchase of any HIV home test kit. In the event Cyberlinx or Stein wish to market or sell any medical device other than HIV home test kits in the future, they are required to post a $500,000 bond
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Cyberlinx Marketing settles FTC charges the Internet company falsely represented HIV home test kits as accurately detecting HIV. Under the stipulated final settlement order, Cyberlinx and its president, Jeffrey Stein, are banned from marketing HIV home test kits and must reimburse the money received from the sale of the kits within 10 days. The order also prohibits the defendants from transferring, disclosing, or selling information regarding any person who paid money to either of them at any time prior to entry of the order in connection with the purchase of any HIV home test kit. In the event Cyberlinx or Stein wish to market or sell any medical device other than HIV home test kits in the future, they are required to post a $500,000 bond. |