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Are your “all natural” claims all accurate?

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Monday, January 16, 2023

According to the FTC, the companies pitched their products as “all natural” or “100% natural,” but included synthetic ingredients.

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  • According to the FTC, the companies pitched their products as “all natural” or “100% natural,” but included synthetic ingredients.
  • - Erickson Marketing Group, doing business as Rocky Mountain Sunscreen, promotes products – including its “Natural Face Stick” – as “all-natural.” What’s in the Face Stick?
  • - Beyond Coastal advertises that its “Natural Sunscreen SPF 30” is “100% natural.” But what's really in it?
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Spilling the beans: The anatomy of a diet craze

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

The complaint recounts how defendant Duncan fueled a diet craze.

Key Points: 
  • The complaint recounts how defendant Duncan fueled a diet craze.
  • The only thing missing, according to the FTC, was proof the product actually worked.
  • As the complaint recounts, a Dr. Oz producer contacted Texas-based Lindsey Duncan, who had been on the show before, about an appearance to talk about green coffee bean extract.
  • The lawsuit alleges that up to that point, Duncan had no familiarity with the ingredient.
  • But that didnt stop a senior member of the defendants PR team from responding, Dr. Lindsey does have knowledge of the Green Coffee Bean.
  • Later that day, the defendants contacted a manufacturer and placed their first order for the stuff.
  • The FTC says the defendants used the time before the shows taping to get their marketing ducks in a row.
  • After the show aired, Duncan used his Dr. Oz appearance to fuel the green coffee bean extract craze.
  • The court order also requires them to substantiate future weight loss claims with at least two well-controlled human clinical tests.
  • For other claims about the health benefits and efficacy of any dietary supplement or drug, theyll need competent and reliable scientific evidence.

Yubo scales real-time audio moderation technology across four major international markets

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

PARIS, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yubo, the live social discovery app for Gen Z, has expanded its audio moderation technology for livestreams across four of its largest markets: the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. In partnership with Hive, Yubo introduced this technology in the United States at the end of May, becoming the first major social media platform in the world to tackle the challenges of real-time audio analysis.

Key Points: 
  • While significant strides have been made in the advancement of real-time image and video moderation technology, audio moderation has remained an unsolved challenge.
  • Hive's audio moderation technology on Yubo currently works by recording and automatically transcribing 10-second snippets of audio in livestreams of 10 or more people.
  • The algorithms that power this audio moderation technology utilize machine learning and will therefore continue to improve and become more precise with time.
  • Yubo first deployed audio moderation technology this summer to a small cross-section of users in the US.

Concord Medical Announces the Successful Holding of the Second Annual Academic Meeting with the world well-known MD Anderson

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

12 experts from MD Anderson participated in the Meeting, including nine of which as guest speakers and three as moderators and opening speakers.

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  • 12 experts from MD Anderson participated in the Meeting, including nine of which as guest speakers and three as moderators and opening speakers.
  • Dr. Jianyu Yang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Concord Medical, commented, "I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the experts who spoke on and participated in the Meeting.
  • MD Anderson is one of the best-known cancer treatment centers globally and the largest cancer center in the United States.
  • Leveraging years of strategic cooperation, MD Anderson and Shanghai Concord Cancer Center successfully cohosted the First Annual Academic Meeting in November 2021.

Rock Tech Lithium completes Pre-Feasibility Study for its Georgia Lake Project

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Rock Tech is a cleantech company on a mission to produce lithium hydroxide for EV batteries.

Key Points: 
  • Rock Tech is a cleantech company on a mission to produce lithium hydroxide for EV batteries.
  • The Company plans to build lithium converters at the door-step of its customers, to guarantee supply-chain transparency and just-in-time delivery.
  • To close the most pressing gap in the clean mobility story, Rock Tech has gathered one of the strongest teams in the industry.
  • Rock Tech plans to source raw material from its own mineral project in Canada as well as procuring it from other responsibly producing mines.

SCOPE CARBON ANNOUNCES RECEIPT OF INITIAL MAPPING DATA FROM FARM FLIGHT AND PROVIDES UPDATE

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The Company has now received its initial package of unprocessed data (the "Data Package"), which will be used, among other things,in the initial training of its technology (the "Scope Analysis Platform").

Key Points: 
  • The Company has now received its initial package of unprocessed data (the "Data Package"), which will be used, among other things,in the initial training of its technology (the "Scope Analysis Platform").
  • The Data Package collected by Farm Flight's advanced imaging technology, is intended to be used for creating carbon verification metrics.
  • Using the data products that Farm Flight and Scope are creating, companies will gain the ability to reach carbon neutrality faster.
  • "Scope's partnership with Farm Flight allows both of our companies to combine our resources and greatly enhance our respective technologies.

SCOPE CARBON ANNOUNCES RECEIPT OF INITIAL MAPPING DATA FROM FARM FLIGHT AND PROVIDES UPDATE

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The Company has now received its initial package of unprocessed data (the "Data Package"), which will be used, among other things,in the initial training of its technology (the "Scope Analysis Platform").

Key Points: 
  • The Company has now received its initial package of unprocessed data (the "Data Package"), which will be used, among other things,in the initial training of its technology (the "Scope Analysis Platform").
  • The Data Package collected by Farm Flight's advanced imaging technology, is intended to be used for creating carbon verification metrics.
  • Using the data products that Farm Flight and Scope are creating, companies will gain the ability to reach carbon neutrality faster.
  • "Scope's partnership with Farm Flight allows both of our companies to combine our resources and greatly enhance our respective technologies.

PlantX Provides Update on Financial Statements

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

As the digital face of the plant-based community, PlantX's platform is the one-stop shop for everything plant-based.

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  • As the digital face of the plant-based community, PlantX's platform is the one-stop shop for everything plant-based.
  • With its fast-growing category verticals, the Company offers customers across North America more than 5,000 plant-based products.
  • All statements contained herein that are not clearly historical in nature may constitute forward-looking information.
  • The forward-looking information contained herein includes, without limitation, the anticipated filing of the Annual Filings and the Interim Filings.