The marketers of “Slim Coffee” – an instant coffee product purportedly containing hoodia – have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their advertising falsely claimed that their product would enable its users to lose significant amounts of weight without diet or exercise. The defendants ran television ads claiming that drinking Slim Coffee had been “clinically proven” to cause weight loss of “up to 5 pounds a week and up to 20 pounds a month.” “There’s no need to change your eating habits or what you eat,” the defendants claimed. “Just replace your coffee with Slim Coffee and you will start to see results. It’s that easy and all-natural.”

The Federal Trade Commission -FTC- announced on January 4, 2007 that they will recover $25 million to settle allegations of deceptive marketing tactics for some products in the weight loss industry, Hoodia TrimSpa being one of them.

The FTC has filed complaints in four separate cases alleging that weight-loss and weight-control claims were not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence.

The TrimSpa contains hoodia gordonii and they emphasized marketing and advertising campaigns, saying TrimSpa is effective because of the hoodia gordonii content.

The FTC charged that ads were misleading consumers, becaus they were led to believe that they could experience dramatic appetite suppression and weight loss because of the hoodia gordonii that is in the TrimSpa product.

Are you searching for any US Government Hoodia warnings?

You will not find any.

If you are looking for US government hoodia warnings, then you will not find any.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a fact for the Consumers on Diet Ads, recommending that consumers evaluate all diet products with a “healthy portion of skepticism”. The FTC investigates complaints against health or dietary supplements.

Up to date, the FTC have not reported any complaints about hoodia products side effects. There are several pending class action suits against products which claim to contain hoodia gordonii, but they are against the absence of hoodia, not the side effects, which is different.