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Beer giant agrees to pull caffeinated drinks

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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August 6 2008

Anheuser-Busch has agreed to stop selling caffeinated alcoholic beverages under pressure from a group of state attorneys general, who accused the beer giant of illegally marketing the drinks to minors

The FTC takes on environmental marketing claims through green guides and more

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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June 17 2009

On June 9, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) testified on its efforts to ensure truthfulness of environmental or “green” marketing claims before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce

Serial (or rather cereal) issues in advertising

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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October 19 2009

If it looks like fruit and sounds like fruit, it must be fruit

Industry group issues food marketing report

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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September 4 2008

Timed to be released simultaneously with the Federal Trade Commission's food marketing report, the Council for Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) released a progress report of its own on the self-regulatory effort it has sponsored, the "Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative."

FTC issues food marketing report: progress noted on childhood obesity

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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September 4 2008

The food marketing industry has made "significant progress" toward implementing recommendations made through a public-private initiative launched in 2005 to tackle childhood obesity

FDA launches "Bad Ad Program" to help health care providers detect, report misleading drug ads

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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May 12 2010

On May 11, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new initiative the “Bad Ad Program” designed to educate health care practitioners about their role in ensuring that prescription drug advertising and promotion is truthful, and not misleading

New principles for food marketing presented for comment

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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April 28 2011

The Interagency Working Group of Food Marketed to Children ("Working Group") today has requested comments on proposed nutritional principles that it hopes will help in the fight against childhood obesity

FDA study on DTC drug advertising

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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December 8 2008

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on a planned FDA study examining consumer comprehension of inclusion of a toll-free number to report side effects in direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug television advertisements

A step beyond due process and the FDA

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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October 25 2012

Bexis had been on the road a lot lately it seems blogging attract speaking engagements and at both the recent PLAC fall meeting and the ACI’s FDA Boot Camp, speakers discussed the recent Supreme Court decision in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., 132 S. Ct. 2307 (2012), as having implications for product liability actions involving regulatory allegation claims

Tobacco regulation legislation approved by House

Reed Smith LLP
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USA
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August 14 2008

On July 30, 2008, the House of Representatives approved by a 326 to 102 vote an amended version of H.R. 1108, the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act,” which would give the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco products