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FTC Takes Tanning Bed Maker to Task

Firm is banned for marketing/selling tanning systems and must refund customers.

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By: Christine Esposito

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The marketers of Mercola indoor tanning systems will pay refunds to consumers and will be permanently banned from marketing or selling indoor tanning systems, under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.    In the FTC’s complaint, which was filed in federal court, the commission charged that Dr. Joseph Mercola and his two companies ran ads claiming that their indoor tanning systems are safe, that research proves indoor tanning does not increase the risk of melanoma skin cancer, and th...

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