See MT’s post above that includes an email from the USFDA stating that the Legacy products are classed as unapproved drugs, not nutritional supplements.
Yeah, I saw that. The rules in the US are riddled with holes to the advantage of the supplements market. If you have a “natural” supplement product you can market it without worry of regulation as long as you don’t say it has any medicinal effect. So anyone is free to go out and sell cabbage juice extract without restriction as long as the cabbage juice is not known to be dangerous.
However, if you market your product with language such as “Cabafuel Cabbage Juice cures cancer while trimming your waistline!” then you have just made it a drug by claiming it has medicinal effects. Reading the complaint from the FDA that MT posted, you’ll see that their complaint stems from health claims made on the web site. It is these claims that cause it to be considered a drug. If they did not make those claims, it would not be a drug unless the FDA found sufficient side effects or other risks.
There’s still lots of ways around this. There are ways to imply claims without actually coming out to say it, such as legacy’s initial claim that he takes it with wonderful results. What results? He doesn’t say until later, and then carefully implies without coming out and saying it that it might help with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. These vague claims may be officially claimed by the company itself as long as the claim is not specific enough. The claim will usually state the results of some research or state some scientific facts about the ingredients, or will contain “may” or “might” a lot. These claims are then usually followed by the disclaimer:
Another dodge with multi-level and affiliate programs is to let the affiliates make the claims, and if the parent company is blamed, they’ll just say that it was a rogue affiliate who has been warned or terminated from the program. Legacy already has put forward a nice argument that affiliates should be blamed for any problems, not the parent company.
Another dodge is to put up lots of shell web sites claiming health benefits that point back to the parent web site for ordering. Same thing with the affiliates, the parent company will disclaim anything on other web sites because they have no control over them.
In short, if you don’t make stupid mistakes, you can market nearly any natural substance in the US as a vitamin or health supplement.
Taiwan on the other hand is different, and that is partly why vitamins are so limited and expensive.
Wrong. Over the last week I, as an international sales manager in a local company selling legit approved products, have granted 2.
Scammer. Shame on you.
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Would one way be to avoid calling them “health” products, and call them “wellness” products instead ?
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Would one way be to avoid calling them “health” products, and call them “wellness” products instead ?[/quote]
God, you are all so bloody NEGATIVE! Its precisely this kind of attitude that caused the British to lose the war you know.
Wrong. Over the last week I, as an international sales manager in a local company selling legit approved products, have granted 2.[/quote]
Granted 2 exclusive distributorships? He he he. 