GVH Fines Hungarian Dietary Supplement Companies For Misleading Consumers
- 25 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
Hungary’s competition office GVH has fined several dietary supplement companies a combined 14.1 million forints for misleading consumers about their products containing devil’s tongue extract (glucomannan), GVH said. GVH has fined Celsus Természetgyógyászati 1.1 million forints, Integcom 2014 Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató 10 million forints and Netamin Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató 3 million forints for making unsubstantiated claims related to weight loss and health effects.
GVH pointed out that companies advertising dietary supplements must comply with the regulations governing the advertising of food products, which stipulate that health effects cannot be attributed to such products and health claims can only be made within narrow limits, in accordance with the strict European norms.
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