Supplement company Airborne to settle $23.3M suit

[miguet]

I use Airborne when I'm just beginning to feel under the weather and need that extra boost. It always seemed to help. Must be the placebo effect.

Here's the story...

http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/080304/030...ment.html?.v=2

[toys2cool]

cool,maybe you could get some of your money back

[miguet]

I didn't think about filing a claim but mabye I should... I'm sure there are going to be people who will file a claim even if they never used the product.

[jessica]

Cool! I don't know why, but I have a receipt dated 2002 that I tacked onto my wall at work. I purchased 8 boxes of airborne @ $5.99 each, to a tune of $47.92. The suit will only cover 5 or 6 I think...but there was a reason why I have been saving this receipt!!

[BlackKnight]

I use that stuff alot.
I haven't been sick for almost 2 yrs either.

[Marvelmania]

I always took it and thought it worked well. Shows how powerful the notion of suggestion is I guess. I will get well soon .... I will get well soon ...

[huedell]

They're denying any wrongdoing but settling anyway?

Isn't that a misstep?

Anyways, I gotta admit, this stuff worries me (if not angers me)
because I rely that these products are gonna work---right?
(Isn't there like some kinda FDA thing they have to pass to go on market
in the first place?)

I mean, I spent at least a couple hundred bucks on this stuff over the years...
now they're saying it has NO effect on what it says it should?

Lame...real lame.

[BlackKnight]

I don't believe that this stuff doesn't work,.. I just can't. I have seriously had no success with other cold remitees. This stuff works,.. unless it was in my head that it worked... I am so confused now.

[starsky]

it works for me... anytime i feel a cold coming on, i'll take it and it's gone. i dont think it's effective once you already have a cold tho.

[miguet]

Cool! I don't know why, but I have a receipt dated 2002 that I tacked onto my wall at work. I purchased 8 boxes of airborne @ $5.99 each, to a tune of $47.92. The suit will only cover 5 or 6 I think...but there was a reason why I have been saving this receipt!!

They should give you more just for having a receipt from 2002.

[Adam West]

The FDA doesn't have to approve over the counter medications, only prescription drugs.

If an over the counter drug/supplement makes an assertion about its ability to treat something, it has to be approved by the FDA, otherwise there should be a disclaimer on the box or bottle saying something to the effect that the statements have not been approved by the FDA.

[huedell]

thanks AW^^^^