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Company: Body Wise International Inc.
Penalty: $1,580,000
Year: 2005
Date: January 19, 2005
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Body Wise International agreed to pay $1.58 million to the Orange County District Attorney and the California Attorney General to resolve allegations of making false claims about the health benefits of its AG-Immune supplement. The Federal Trade Commission was also involved in the case and separately collected $2 million; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: local
Action Type: agency action
Agency: California Multi-Jurisdiction Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
Facility State: California
Facility County: Orange
Source of Data: Body Wise to pay $3.58 million in consumer-fraud settlement, Orange County Register, January 19, 2005 (via Nexis).
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.