Don’t let ‘FDA-approved’ or ‘patented’ in ads give you a false sense of security

By Michael Mattioli, Professor of Law and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University

If you’ve ever reached for a bottle of moisturizer labeled “patented” or “FDA approved,” you might want to think twice. In a recent study of hundreds of advertisements, I found that supplements and beauty products often misleadingly use these terms to suggest safety or efficacy.

As a law professor, I suspect this is confusing for consumers, maybe even dangerous. Having a patent means only that you can stop others from making,…

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