FTC Shoots Down Vitamin 'IV Cocktail' Provider's Claims To Treat Cancer
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Executive Summary
A wave of businesses offering OTC IV services, including some that offer drug ingredients in their formulations, dates to a mobile unit launched in Las Vegas in 2012 to provide hangover remedies. Following FTC's Sept. 20 announcement of a complaint and a proposed settlement with "iV Cocktails" remedies provider A&O Enterprises businesses across the sector could be experiencing hangovers from concern about their future.
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