Banning Misleading Advertising
In Hong Kong, proposed legislation would ban all misleading "health food" advertising. Traditionally, as in most parts of the world, health food supplements like breast enhancing drinks, natural weight loss pills or herbal high blood pressure remedies have been ignored by the medical and legal establishments in Hong Kong. Does this represent a new direction? Will we see more regulation in the industry in the US? We'll have to wait and see how the Undesirable Medical Advertisements law in Hong Kong actually works.
Written By J. Foster
generally in the US you can sell anything you want as long as you call it a supplement and don't make medical claims. Even something like soap...as soon as you make a medicinal claim it will be regulated by the FDA or some other acronym.
personally, i think this is a good thing...it is time for scientific study to sort thru and quantify all the "cures" out there.
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