Claim rulingsNamed condition
No. “Lowers cholesterol” is a treatment claim for a diagnosed condition. The compliant version is “helps maintain cholesterol levels already within the normal range”, and dropping that qualifier is what breaks it.
Why it fails
Hyperlipidemia treatment claim.
We file this under named condition and rate it critical. It is enforced by FDA, FTC, Amazon, Meta, 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.
What to say instead
This is the rewrite an audit ships for this phrase, in the words we would hand you.
The ruling’s own rewrite
'Helps maintain cholesterol levels already within the normal range'
Claims that hold in its place
The qualifier is what makes it legal. Do not drop it.
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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