FTC Commissioners Seem POM-Skeptical In Claims Hearing
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
“The idea that this company has built these health claims on bogus science is wrong,” says POM Wonderful counsel Edward Lazarus. But commissioners reviewing appeals of FTC’s challenge against POM’s claims for its pomegranate products appeared to believe the company made a number of implied disease claims.
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