Yomiuri: FTC cautions TV Asahi over misleading info
The Fair Trade Commission has cautioned TV Asahi Corp. for providing misleading information on a horse saddle-style exercise machine sold in its shopping programs. The broadcaster had claimed people could lose up to 6.6 kilograms by exercising on the machine for one hour per day for three weeks. However, the FTC obtained data from the manufacturer stating that a person could only lose up to 0.4 kilogram with this amount of exercise. This is the first time the FTC has admonished a broadcaster over a shopping program. According to the FTC, about 53,000 of the fitness machines, Rodeo Boy II, were sold during a yearlong period via the shopping programs, with sales totaling about 1.5 billion yen...The FTC suspects TV Asahi violated the Law for Preventing Unjustifiable Extra or Unexpected Benefit and Misleading Representation...more...
