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March 11, 2020

MORE CORONAVIRUS SCAMS

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have sent warning letters to seven companies allegedly selling unapproved products that may violate federal law by making deceptive or scientifically unsupported claims about their ability to treat coronavirus (COVID-19).
Warning letters were sent to the following companies:
1) Vital Silver, 2) Quinessence Aromatherapy Ltd., 3) N-ergetics, 4) GuruNanda, LLC, 5) Vivify Holistic Clinic, 6) Herbal Amy LLC, and 7) The Jim Bakker Show.
The recipients are companies that advertise products—including teas, essential oils, and colloidal silver—as able to treat or prevent coronavirus.
The FDA considers the sale and promotion of fraudulent COVID-19 products to be a threat to the public health. “We don’t need this situation where companies are preying on consumers by promoting products with fraudulent prevention and treatment claims” said FTC Chairman Joe Simons.
Anyone having knowledge of such illegal activities are urge to report it to the Federal Trade Commission, http://www.FTC.gov, or Food and Drug Administration, http://www.FDA.gov.