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Company: Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, Inc. et al.
Penalty: $2,500,000
Year: 2006
Date: March 2, 2006
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The makers of the erectile dysfunction product popularized by the Smiling Bob ads agreed to pay states $2.5 million and provide restitution to consumers to settle a multistate enforcement action alleging that the defendants made unsubstantiated claims about dietary supplements' effectiveness and automatically billed consumers for products they never requested.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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