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Senate Spars with FTC BCP Director Sam Levine over FTC Enforcement, Surprisingly from Both Sides

Yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security held its second hearing in less than a year on COVID-19 fraud, price gouging, and related enforcement…

Taking State AGs’ Temperature on Covid Tests

Consumers across the country have been scrambling to get their hands on convenient and quick at-home Covid tests for weeks as the Omicron variant surge has gripped the country. With President Biden’s recent…

NAD Decision Suggests Expansive Definition of Advertising

As part of its routine monitoring program, NAD asked ACT to provide substantiation for statements the company made online about its standardized college entrance test. NAD was concerned about whether ACT sufficiently…

Biden EPA Continues Aggressive Enforcement Against Disinfectant Products and UV Devices Claiming to Kill Coronavirus

One of the few areas of EPA policy continuity between the Biden and Trump eras is the aggressive enforcement attention being paid to products that claim to fight the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. While EPA has long…

You Can Hide Your Covid-Brows, But Don’t Hide Covid Fees

Two articles from the weekend perusal of the Washington Post are worthy of mention here. First, it seems that pandemic eyebrows are driving us all crazy . I don’t have an answer for that problem other than to…