CV-FR-03 · standards
Facility registration may be true. Using it as a product claim is what converts a true fact into a misleading one.
Found on 30 of the 2,243 best-selling listings we have ruled, 30 times in total. That is 30 live product pages carrying this wording today.
“facility registration; registration is a filing obligation and is not an approval, endorsement or clearance of any product made at the facility”
FTC Act s.5(a), 15 U.S.C. 45(a)
“unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce”
Source checked 2026-08-18.
An interpretation. We applied a published legal test to the published copy and reached a conclusion. Reasonable reviewers applying the same test can disagree at the margin; this is our reviewer's professional opinion, and the test is cited so you can check the reasoning.
Claims Verified, standard CV-FR-03 "FDA registered (as a product claim)", standards v1.4.1, retrieved 05 October 2026, https://claimsverified.org/standards/CV-FR-03/
Or put it in your own policy
Marketing copy must not use "FDA registered (as a product claim)" or equivalent wording. See Claims Verified standard CV-FR-03 (standards v1.4.1): https://claimsverified.org/standards/CV-FR-03/
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