Simon Adeyemi
Health and industry desk
Health Desk · Industry Record
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Reports on health and wellness claims bordering beauty, and on the manufacturers, retailers, and regulators whose filings and enforcement actions shape what reaches shelves. Every claim carries its evidence grade and the conditions under which it was actually studied.
Comes to the desk through close reading of clinical study design, dosage, and study population, distinguishing a controlled trial from a marketing-funded pilot. Before a health claim runs, the original study is checked for who funded it, how large the sample was, and whether the result generalizes beyond the tested group. Recall notices, warning letters, and trade body statements are read in full, not through summaries, before industry coverage is published.
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Published work 14 articles since 2026
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France's Consumer Watchdog Tested 120 Supplements for Fatigue. Most Fell Short
60 Millions de consommateurs screened 120 popular supplements and found weak evidence for fatigue relief, plus some ingredients flagged for safety concerns.
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FTC's $225 Million Amway Settlement Closes a 47-Year Loop on America's Founding MLM Case
FTC and Washington state's AG want Amway, World Wide Group and Leadership Team Development to pay $225 million, the largest MLM settlement in FTC history, over alleged deceptive recruiting.
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Is there such a thing as 'healthier' bacon?
Which? tested 57 pork bacons plus plant and poultry versions for salt, saturated fat and nitrites, finding fivefold gaps in fat and near-threefold gaps in salt between products.
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MHRA's August Advertising Report Lands as a New Weight-Loss Pill Hits the Market
MHRA's August 2026 decisions on unlawful medicine ads arrive days after it approved Eli Lilly's oral GLP-1 pill Foundayo, testing whether June's joint warning changed pharmacy marketing.
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Does 'Ferritin Face' Mean You Have an Iron Deficiency? Here's How to Tell.
A TikTok term for a tired, pale face has people self-diagnosing low iron, but ferritin alone can mask true deficiency and the numbers doctors argue over are still shifting.
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OPSS Opens First Regulatory Sandbox for Bioengineered Cosmetic Ingredients
OPSS opened its first regulatory sandbox, letting cosmetics firms using precision fermentation, synthetic biology, or cell culture test compliance with the GB Cosmetics Regulation before applications close 4 December 2026.
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Celebrities Are Raving About Full-Body Scans. Doctors Urge Caution
Whole-body MRI scans turn up an "abnormal" finding in 95% of healthy people, but a review of 12 studies found 91% of those findings are not clinically meaningful. No U.S. medical society endorses the scans for people without symptoms.
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The THC Gummy Problem: Impairment Doesn't Wait for the High to Kick In
A 2024 driving-simulator trial found THC gummies impaired lane control at doses below legal blood-THC limits, exposing a gap between what's illegal and what's actually risky. Edibles' delayed, unpredictable onset makes that gap especially dangerous for drivers.
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A One-Time Gene Edit Kept Cholesterol Down for a Year. Here's What the Data Can and Can't Say.
A 15-person trial found a single CRISPR infusion cut LDL by 53% a year later, but it's Phase 1a safety data, not proof the edit prevents heart attacks, and a rival base-editing drug is close behind.
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UK product-safety notifications fall 37% as border checks do most of the enforcement work
OPSS's latest Product Safety Database report shows notifications dropped sharply in 2024-25, with import rejections at the border doing more enforcement work than domestic recalls.
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ASA's Influencer Naming List Is the Small Stick; the CMA's New Fining Power Is the Big One
The ASA's public list names influencers who refused to label ads; a bigger enforcement shift has arrived via the CMA, which gained direct fining power up to £300,000 or 10% of turnover in April 2025.
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Deer Antlers Helped Mice Heal Fractures in a Week. The Reason May Be Their Nerves.
Mice given injections of deer antler polypeptides healed fractures in about a third the usual time, and the researchers behind the study, from Washington University and Ningbo University, say the reason may be nerve cells, not just bone cells, driving the repair.
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The "Natural Ozempic" Headline Spain Keeps Writing, Minus the One Number That Matters
Spanish outlets keep asking if berberine is a "natural Ozempic," and the newest entry, from El Mundo's Yo Dona, still skips the number that would settle it: a 2025 meta-analysis puts berberine's weight-loss effect at under a kilogram, against semaglutide's 12-15% body weight loss in trials.
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The Three-Phrase Kindness Test Was Never a Test
The three phrases originated in a US advice column based on clinical impressions, not a study of kind people. French and Spanish retellings turned suggestions about what to say into an unsupported claim about who says them.
