Latest news
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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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Quit non-compliance – filtered tips for stop-smoking ads
- CAP News
- 10 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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Dawn Hazeldine t/a Stockport Counselling Services
- Upheld
- Internet (website content)
- 12 March 2025
A webpage misleadingly claimed that they were associated with the BACP and implied that they’d received training and qualifications from them when this wasn't the case.
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Action Rehab
- Upheld
- Website (own site)
- 18 December 2024
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 they had been approved by a public body. It also failed to make clear that they received a commission for their service.
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Addiction Recovery Systems Ltd t/a Rehab Guide
- Upheld
- Internet (website content)
- 18 December 2024
A website for a rehab clinic referral company falsely implied that they were acting for purposes outside their business and that they provided treatment directly at clinics they operated and also failed to make clear that they received a commission for their service.
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Better Health and Wellness
- Upheld
- Social media (paid ad)
- 18 December 2024
A paid-for Facebook ad was misleading as it didn’t make clear the nature of the content people would be served if they engaged with the ad.