Disapproval of proposed weight-reducing claims for garments
70 F.T.C. 1885 · date not parsed · Digest No. 102
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No. 102. Disapproval of proposed weight-reducing claims for garments.
The Federal Trade Commission, basing its action on scientific information available to it and on its knowledge and experience recently advised a manufacturer of plastic slimming garments that the Commission had reason to believe that proposed advertising and representations to the effect that these garments through inducing perspiration, would effectively cause weight reduction, or spot weight reduction in preselected body areas or reducing generalJy, would be actionable under Section 12 of the releasedFederal Trade Commission Act. (File );o. 673 7024, );ov. 11 , 1966.