Does FTC Health Ads Guide Read Like Rulemaking, Ignore Court Decisions On Requiring RCTs?
Executive Summary
“I'm not sure they shouldn’t have done a notice of proposed rulemaking,” says attorney Claudia Lewis. From previous guidance, “the FTC has taken it a step in the different direction that you need robust scientific evidence, in their mind robust scientific evidence means clinical data.”
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