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
Latest rulings
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Ovira Australia t/a Ovira UK
- Upheld
- Social media (paid ad)
- 11 December 2024
Three paid-for Meta ads made unauthorised specific health claims, referred to an amount of weight loss, implied a food could prevent, treat or cure PCOS and symptoms of the menopause and made medicinal claims for an unlicenced product.
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Vita Studio Pte Ltd
- Upheld
- In-game advertising
- 04 December 2024
An in-game ad for a mobile app game discouraged essential treatment for a condition for which medical supervision should be sought and misleadingly claimed the app could help treat sleep loss problems.
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Stirling Health Ltd
- Upheld
- Press other (paid ad)
- 20 November 2024
A press ad made medicinal claims for an unauthorised product.
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Excite For Life Ltd
- Upheld
- Internet (website content)
- 18 September 2024
A website made misleading claims that CBD was suitable for consumption by children, incorrectly stated that the recommended maximum consumption of CBD per day for adults was 70 mg and made general health claims that weren't accompanied by an authorised specific health claim.