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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: HCG Platinum, LLC and Right Way Nutrition, LLC
Penalty: $1,000,000
Year: 2014
Date: December 11, 2014
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Marketers who pitched homeopathic HCG drops as a quick and easy way to lose substantial weight agreed to pay $1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their weight-loss claims were deceptive and not supported by scientific evidence. The defendants stopped selling HCG Platinum drops, and under the settlement, Kevin Wright and his Utah-based companies, HCG Platinum, LLC and Right Way Nutrition, LLC, were banned from making similar weight-loss claims in the future.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Utah
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