“FDA registered (as a product claim)”

High False regulatory 1 of 98 standards

Facility registration may be true. Using it as a product claim is what converts a true fact into a misleading one.

How often we find it

Found on 22 of the 1,524 best-selling listings we have ruled, 22 times in total. That is 22 live product pages carrying this wording today.

What this standard rests on

FDA · US · statute

FDCA s.415, 21 U.S.C. 350d

“facility registration; registration is a filing obligation and is not an approval, endorsement or clearance of any product made at the facility”

FTC · US · statute

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.

What kind of finding this is

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.

Cite this standard

Claims Verified, standard CV-FR-03 "FDA registered (as a product claim)", standards v1.3.1, retrieved 16 September 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 v1.3.1): https://claimsverified.org/standards/CV-FR-03/

Cite it freely with attribution and the version. The whole register is machine-readable at /standards/registry.json. Rulings are our published professional opinion, not legal advice.

Others in False regulatory

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