Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission appears in Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work? as the U.S. advertising and consumer-protection regulator involved in the Prevagen case. The episode says the FTC sued in 2017 over false advertising and won almost eight years later, with the court finding that the cited clinical trial did not show the supplement improved memory.

In the wiki, this makes the FTC the enforcement counterpart to the [[FoodAndDrugAdministration|FDA]] in the supplement branch. The FDA safety and ingredient questions did not by themselves prevent years of sales, while FTC action targeted marketing claims after the product had already been sold at large scale.

Connections

• Prevagen - advertising-enforcement case in the source.
• Food and Drug Administration - separate regulator with a different safety and ingredient role.
• Supplement Structure Function Claims - claim-language boundary relevant to advertising.
• Dietary Supplement Regulation - broader regulatory system.