Advertising Regulation In Brief: NAD flags ad labeled “news”
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
NAD flags ad labeled “news”; ASA nixes Lucozade “better than water” claims; Oxford Biolabs fails to substantiate claims; Naked Juice trips on health claims rewrite; and Vitabotics substantiates Visionace claims.
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