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CONSUMERLAB.COM FINDS LEAD IN CORAL CALCIUM PRODUCT
PRODUCT ALSO CHARGED WITH FALSE ADVERTISING BY FTC
— Calcium Supplement Product Review Published Online Today —
WHITE PLAINS, NY — June 10, 2003 — ConsumerLab.com today reported finding several problems among the calcium products recently tested in its Product Review of Calcium Supplements. Amounts of lead in excess of the State of California's "no significant risk level" were found in two products. One of these was "Coral Calcium Supreme by Robert Barefoot" a product widely promoted in infomercials for extraordinary health benefits and costing roughly 30 times that of the least expensive product to pass the review. Simultaneous with ConsumerLab.com's release today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged the promoters of this product with by claiming, falsely and without substantiation, that Coral Calcium Supreme can treat or cure cancer and other diseases. Last month, the Council for Responsible Nutrition, an industry trade group, urged the government to prohibit the egregious claims used to market this product. The other product with elevated lead also failed to fully break apart in disintegration testing. A third product was found to contain only 77-percent of its labeled amount of calcium.
PRODUCT ALSO CHARGED WITH FALSE ADVERTISING BY FTC
— Calcium Supplement Product Review Published Online Today —
WHITE PLAINS, NY — June 10, 2003 — ConsumerLab.com today reported finding several problems among the calcium products recently tested in its Product Review of Calcium Supplements. Amounts of lead in excess of the State of California's "no significant risk level" were found in two products. One of these was "Coral Calcium Supreme by Robert Barefoot" a product widely promoted in infomercials for extraordinary health benefits and costing roughly 30 times that of the least expensive product to pass the review. Simultaneous with ConsumerLab.com's release today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged the promoters of this product with by claiming, falsely and without substantiation, that Coral Calcium Supreme can treat or cure cancer and other diseases. Last month, the Council for Responsible Nutrition, an industry trade group, urged the government to prohibit the egregious claims used to market this product. The other product with elevated lead also failed to fully break apart in disintegration testing. A third product was found to contain only 77-percent of its labeled amount of calcium.