Applied Food Sciences, Inc. Will Pay $3.5 Million and Must Substantiate Future Claims
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 8, 2014. A Texas-based company, Applied Food Sciences, Inc. (AFS), has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it used the results of a flawed study to make baseless weight-loss claims about its green coffee extract to retailers, who repeated those claims in marketing finished products to consumers.
The FTC complaint alleges the study was so hopelessly flawed that no reliable…
