The Federal Trade Commission has won settlements in two cases against marketers of dietary supplements.
In one case filed by the FTC and the Food and Drug Administration, the marketers of the Seasilver supplement agreed to pay $4.5 million in consumer redress and destroy misbranded product worth $5.3 million. They are also banned from making false claims for any dietary supplement.
The defendants include Seasilver USA, Inc. and Americaloe Inc., Carlsbad, CA, and their principals, Bela and Jason Berkes. Also listed are distributors Brett Rademacher, of Anchorage, AK, and David R. Friedman, D.C., of Carlsbad, CA.
According to a complaint filed last June, the defendants falsely claimed in DR ads that Seasilver could cure 650 diseases, including cancer and AIDS, that it enables diabetics to stop taking insulin, and causes weight loss without dieting.
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