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Diet Pills / False Advertising #848287

ABC Evening News for Thursday, Jan 04, 2007
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(Capitol Hill: Charles Gibson) Report introduced.

(Washington: Lisa Stark) The FTC's fines against diet pill makers for false advertising featured; diet products named with TV ads shown & statements from Goen Technologies about Trimspa & Bayer about WeightSmart quoted. [FTC chairman Deborah Platt MAJORAS†- says consumers lose cash, not weight.] [Dieter Anna KUJAWSKI†- says the ads promised her quick weight loss.] [New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical College Dr. Louis ARONNE†- hopes consumers will be more skeptical.]

Reporter(s):
Gibson, Charles;
Stark, Lisa
Duration:
00:02:10

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