Kevin Trudeau
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 How could the New York State consumer protection Board come to that conclusion without allowing me due process of law or trial by jury? How can they come to that conclusion when the FTC itself has reviewed my infomercials and came to a completely different conclusion?
• The press release states I am using false endorsements to encourage consumers to buy the book. This is categorically, 100 percent untrue. Every endorsement for the book is 100 percent real, legitimate, and unscripted. Not one person has been paid a cent to endorse my book. |
| This is why I am suing the New York State consumer protection Board and the individual people involved personally. I will attack anyone who tries to take my First Amendment rights away from me. I will attack anyone who tries to suppress my freedom of speech. I will attack anyone who tries to slander or defame me. I know the drug companies are spending tens of millions of dollars trying to put negative PR against me and trying to get people to stop buying and reading my book. They cannot succeed. Over five million people now have purchased the book. |
| I was contacted by the New York State consumer protection Board. This Board is allegedly a part of the Attorney General's Office. The Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Jon Sorensen, sent us a communication asking some very bizarre and interesting questions. First off, notice Mr. Sorensen's title—Director of Marketing and Public Relations. This appears to be a person whose job is to smear those who try to expose government corruption. He is the "public relations man. |
| Quartararo and other members of the consumer protection Board. Our investigators assured me, based on their surveillance, that this woman was using crack cocaine and was potentially a dealer of crack cocaine. We passed this information on to the officials, who were informed of the exact location of the crack cocaine purchase. She was arrested. Information obtained from my sources indicates that other members of these agencies also appear to be involved in similar activity. I fight back. These criminals in government are not going to continue their fraud and deception of the American public. |
| It appears that the FTC worked in conjunction with this "New York State consumer protection Board" to organize a vicious, slanderous attack on me. This Board is not interested in protecting consumers. How do I know this? I know it because this Board had virtually no complaints from any consumers about my book or my infomercials. Why in the world is this Board allegedly spending time and effort to warn people about a book and an infomercial about which nobody is complaining, but virtually everybody is praising? Can you see my point? |
| These politically appointed cronies do the bidding of the politicians in the state of New York and Washington. The consumer protection Board is nothing but a front. It has no interest in protecting consumers. It has never done anything to protect consumers. The only thing this Board does is act as a black, negative PR machine that does the bidding of the politicians. I have exposed this scam and fraud. Because I exposed the corruption, this Board started a massive negative campaign against me. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 The FDA bills itself as "The Nation's Foremost consumer protection Agency,"69 and its mission statement ends with the phrase "helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health." Yet the agency's handling of this dubious claim suggests nothing so much as an unholy alliance with big business.
The original petition—submitted by Protein Technologies International—requested the health claim not for soy protein but for soy isoflavones, the plant estrogens found abundantly in soybeans. |
Michele Simon
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 So corporate lobbyists have created an imaginary threat based on one unresolved lawsuit and are convincing sympathetic politicians to pass new laws to essentially undo an entire legal system of consumer protection.
It's the Documents, Stupid
Why is industry so determined to shield itself from liability if there's no real risk?
Whether or not it makes sense for someone who eats too many Big Macs to sue McDonald's is really beside the point to industry. |
| Tracy Westen was deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of consumer protection (under Chairman Michael Pertschuk's bold leadership) and in charge of the ill-fated proposal. At the time, the main health concern was dental cavities and the long-term impact of diets high in sugar. Chief among several agency objectives was advertising aimed at very young children, up to age six, who couldn't even understand what ads were. |
| The low-sugar cereal scam prompted a California woman to file a lawsuit under the state's consumer protection laws against Kraft, General Mills, and Kellogg in 2005. She alleges that the companies' low-sugar cereals falsely represent "that they offer a nutritional advantage over defendants' full-sugar breakfast cereal products, when in fact, the removed sugar is replaced by other carbohydrates, thus offering no significant nutritional advantage."19 Just a few months later, a similar case was filed in Montreal against Kellogg Canada. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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 Quebec's consumer protection Act
The Province of Quebec, Canada, enacted the consumer protection Act in 1978, which stated that "no person may make use of commercial advertising directed at persons under thirteen years of age." To determine whether advertisements are aimed at children, officials consider the nature and intended use of the advertised goods, the content of the advertisement, and the time and place it is shown.83
Pulled Support for Golden Marble Awards
A grassroots campaign in 2001 by Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children was mounted to encourage Scholastic, Inc. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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| Help for the consumer comes in January 2006 when the Food Allergen Labeling and consumer protection Act (S. 741) goes into effect. The law requires food manufacturers to clearly state whether a product contains milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat or soy, and requires the FDA to conduct inspections to ensure that manufacturers comply with practices to reduce or eliminate cross-contamination with any major food allergens that are not intentional ingredients of a food. |
Jacky Law
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 Sustaining some form of non-instrumental science - which in practice means not routinely applying the litmus test of wealth creation to every new idea or hypothesis — is important not only for inquiry into fundamental theoretical questions but also because society needs a model of independent critical rationality for the proper conduct of democratic debate, judicial inquiry and consumer protection.37
Most of all, disinterested science is important to sustain public trust in the whole enterprise. |
Sue Palmer
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 The National Consumer Council (for information about consumer protection, including the Shopping Generation report on children): www.ncc.org.uk US campaign for a commercial-free childhood: www.commercialexploitation.com US campaign about children and the media: www.childrennow.org/issues/media/index.html
Mind the gap
A happy childhood shouldn't depend on money, and in the past - before the market took over children's lives - it didn't. As one who grew up contentedly playing with cardboard boxes and dressing-up clothes, I can vouch for this. |
Marion Nestle
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 We have seen how food companies often place commercial interests above those of consumer protection, and how government agencies often support business interests over those of public health. Today, the threat of food bioterrorism—the ultimate dread factor—reveals the importance of closing the long-standing gaps in oversight of food safety.
As consumers, we want to know that our government cares that the food we eat and the water we drink are safe (or safe enough). |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Contrary to a popular belief created by the "consumer protection network," misleading documented advertising is insignificant compared to other illegal methods that fleece the consumer out of money every year. You see, they haven't told you about the other seven methods that are used to fleece the public to a much, much greater degree. I call these the true secrets of success. I will list them in order by the estimated extent to which they take money right out of the consumer's pocket.
Price-fixing and monopolies. |
Marion Nestle
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| Congress could help by putting consumer protection first and creating a single food agency with genuine authority over safety in the production and distribution of foods as well as over their effects on environmental and public health. Such an agency could be empowered to promote food security in all of its humanitarian aspects: reliable access, adequate quantity and quality, appropriate cultural relevance, and safety. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Now the reason for the incredibly swift and unjustly severe action by the consumer protection Network with regard to our diet bread became quite understandable.
A bureaucrat trying to justify his existence or a new lawyer trying to make a name for himself has a very small spectrum of companies with which to work. A substantial number of viable companies have a vested interest in the government and are listed as untouchable. Other large companies have formidable law firms and funds to fight in court. They also carry influence with the news media because of advertising dollars. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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| These groups involve a broad range of individuals (parents, teachers, people from child advocacy and consumer protection groups, scientists), have websites, and offer ways to get involved.
Commercial Alert has been especially active at the national and even international level.64 This group marshaled strong protest against Channel One and organized the ouster from the schools of ZapMe!, a comparry that used school-based computers to advertise to children and do market research on them. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Convince Representative William Ford Peren (D-MI), (Chairman of the Postal Office and Civil Service Committee), to have the government accounting office initiate and conduct a thorough investigation of the Postal Inspection Service and consumer protection Division Law Department to expose and terminate the practice of selective enforcement.
Ralph, our company faces a life or death situation in this matter. |
Marion Nestle
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| They should grant consumer protection at least the same level of priority as promotion of industry objectives. Federal regulators must recognize as well that science-based decisions also have political dimensions and must find ways to consider societal and environmental implications when approving genetically modified foods.
And what should the public think or do about food biotechnology? As with other aspects of food politics, much depends on point of view. |
| The Times considered the new administration's proposed policy changes a "refreshing break" in USDA's "traditional laxity in consumer protection."22 In a further response to the Jack in the Box outbreak, the FDA recommended an increase in the minimal cooking temperature for ground beef from i40°F to i55°F (later, the FDA raised the recommended temperature to i6o°F to provide an extra margin of safety for home cooks). The outbreak also stimulated calls for research to better identify microbial pathogens and find out how they get into the food supply. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Our main concern here was to insure we stopped the aggression from the so-called consumer protection network, or better put, the competition suppression network. We felt that the FDA had been checked, but we weren't sure about Channel 3. After our full-page ad ran against them, they were completely mum, but we couldn't take the chance that they would not come out again with more publicity, so for insurance, we filed the libel suit against WKYC-TV, NBC, Channel 3 in Cleveland. |
| But when you are a new, viable, visible company with no government influence, or litigation resources, you look like a trapped chicken to a hungry fox to the consumer protection Network.
What you must do to become a permanent, viable, major business in the United States
We had prepared a new bread ad to launch the retail sales. The New York attorney decided it would be a good idea to go on a goodwill mission to Cincinnati to talk to Mr. Simmons, to show that we made an effort to review the new ad with him. It was decided at the last minute that it would be best if I did not go down. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 A 1996 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine said, "Because FDA requirements do not apply to foods that are rarely allergenic or to donor organisms of unknown allergenicity, the policy would appear to favor industry over consumer protection."10
The FDA does recommend that producers evaluate potential allergens by comparison of the protein's amino acid sequence to known allergens, the resistance of the protein to break down by digestion and heat, and evaluation of molecular size. The EPA, which regulates pesticidal Bt crops, makes similar recommendations. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| It was becoming more and more apparent that there is a very small spectrum of people that the consumer protection Network prosecutes—small, viable, visible businesses with no influence in the government. The real thieves in the higher echelon with influence are let go, and the small thieves, the one bureaucrat called small potatoes, are given a low-priority status, because you don't get as big a feather in your cap for such a prosecution. |
Marion Nestle
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 Even a casual glance explains why the products might trouble a government official responsible for food safety and consumer protection. Their names alone—Blood Builders, Brute
Strength, CholesAid, Estra-Prime, Herbal Laxative, Joint Fuel, Liver Support, Neuro-Mind, Osteo-Cal, Prosta-Care, RxMemory, Sound Asleep, Stress Formula—imply function. The label of a product that we picked at random from the "immune support" shelf stated that it contained black elderberry extract, echinacea, zinc, propolis, and vitamin C. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
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| The conflicts of interest within the FDA has produced an outcry from many a consumer protection group over the last decade or two as the pharmaceuticals and FDA officials have formed closer and closer ties. It has been documented in many a volume that many FDA officials have worked very hard not to cross the pharmaceuticals so that they would be insured of a good position within one of these companies when they left their FDA posts. This is a practice which is not only unethical, but should be declared illegal. |
| According to the report filed with the FDA by Ralph Nader's consumer protection group, "fluoxetine is most frequently associated with anxiety, insomnia, hypomania, nervousness, nausea, akathisia (a syndrome characterized by motor restlessness and marked anxiety), anorexia, and diarrhea." The following definitions are taken from Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Edition Fifteen, compiled by Clayton L. Thomas, M.D., M.P.H.
Agitation: Excessive restlessness, increased mental and physical activity, especially the latter. |
| It serves as a sad commentary on what is the motivating force behind consumer protection in our country today. We can be sure that profits will cover the business losses even after the lawsuits for damages are settled. After all that is the bottom line in business.
PATIENT REPORTS LISTENING TO PATIENTS, NOT PROZAC
If someone is contemplating buying a product, how often does he just take the word of the salesman and the manufacturer about it? One generally goes to previous customers of that particular product to see if those consumers were "satisfied customers". |
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