CLAIM RULINGS · FALSE REGULATORY

Can a supplement say “FDA approved”?

No. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements at all, so the claim is false on its face; if the plant is registered, the accurate wording is “manufactured in an FDA-registered facility”.

SEVERITY WE ASSIGN
CRITICAL
STANDARD FAMILY
False regulatory
ENFORCED BY
FDA, FTC, Amazon, Meta, Google
§ 01 · WHY IT FAILS

The rule this runs into

FDA does not approve dietary supplements. Categorically false.

We file this under false regulatory and rate it critical. It is enforced by FDA, FTC, Amazon, Meta, Google, which matters because a single phrase can fail in more than one place at once: a listing suppression, an ad-account review and a warning letter are three different consequences of the same sentence.

§ 02 · WHAT TO SAY INSTEAD

The compliant version

This is the rewrite an audit ships for this phrase, in the words we would hand you.

THE RULING’S OWN REWRITE

Remove. If the facility is registered: 'manufactured in an FDA-registered facility'.

CLAIMS THAT HOLD IN ITS PLACE
QUALITY
Manufactured in an FDA-registered, cGMP-compliant facility

Facility-level and true. Never say the product is FDA-anything.

QUALITY
Third-party tested for purity and potency

Verifiable and strong. Use it when it is true.

Every structure/function claim on this page still needs the FDA disclaimer wherever it appears. That requirement has its own ruling.

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§ 03 · NEARBY RULINGS

Same family, same trap

HIGH · FALSE REGULATORY
Can a supplement say “FDA registered”?
HIGH · FALSE REGULATORY
Can a supplement say “clinically proven”?
CRITICAL · FALSE REGULATORY
Can a supplement say “100% safe” or “no side effects”?
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