Latest news
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Clarity for ads in the addiction treatment referral sector
- CAP News
- 30 January 2025
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Trim down your weight loss medicine ads, doctor’s orders!
- CAP News
- 16 January 2025
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Shroom for improvement? Navigating the advertising rules for functional mushrooms
- CAP News
- 21 November 2024
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Claims to treat Long COVID? Don’t be immune to the misleading advertising rules!
- CAP News
- 07 November 2024
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Don’t feel rattled about your baby-related ads
- CAP News
- 24 October 2024
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Avoid getting the ASA’s back up this back care awareness week.
- CAP News
- 10 October 2024
Latest rulings
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INSTITUTO NATURVITA S.L. t/a Natur Vital
- Upheld
- 12 February 2025
A webpage misleadingly and irresponsibly implied that hair colourants were safe for people with an allergy to PPD.
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Visual Stress Consultancy Ltd
- Upheld
- Website (own site)
- 29 January 2025
A website made unsubstantiated claims that tinted glasses could be used for driving at night and condoned unsafe driving.
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Health Line
- Upheld
- Social media (paid ad)
- 22 January 2025
Two paid-for Facebook ads misleadingly exaggerated the capabilities of laser eye treatment, falsely implied that they directly provided laser eye treatment themselves and didn't make clear that they received a commission for their service.
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Marren Healthcare Ltd
- Upheld
- Website (own site)
- 08 January 2025
A website for a rehab clinic referral company falsely implied that they were acting for purposes outside their business, that they owned clinics and that local rehab centres could be accessed using their website. They also didn't make clear that they received a commission for their services.