Tag: Advertising
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Roadside doctors with no degrees thrive in India. ‘Lame walk’
There is another menace.These people conduct self paid programmes in television with prepaid,tutotored audience before the camera,vouchsafing the products.At least media should refrain from airing these programmes.
Another type of Charlatanry is run by Christian organisations,which show live “instances”of ‘lame walking and blind seeing’by hystericall crying and yelling, calling it prayer.Most of these ‘cured’ are tutored and paid poor people.The people who run it have been running this as a business for three generations including a child from 3 years.Insult to Christianity and Jesus.
At least the Church should take action.These programmes demean Jesus and Christianity.
Government will take no action, hiding behind Secularism
Story;
New Delhi, India (CNN) — Sitting on an iron bench along a busy street, Chaman Lal sticks his fingers into a mug full of a greasy concoction and then applies the dark-red brew to areas where his patients complain of pain.Lal — who does not have a license to practice medicine, but claims to be a successful bone doctor and traditional healer — says this potion of 18 herbs is a cure-all. His large signboard, placed along the roadside, claims he can even treat paralysis.
“I have a special potion for polio as well. Although I don’t get polio cases these days, but it can be cured with that potion and oil massage,” Lal said as he rubbed the broken ankle of a young man with the potion.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/27/india.doctors.roadside/index.html
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Probe Nutrition claims on Food/Health packages.
Long over due action.
In India, companies are going all out in misleading/fraudulent advertising.A Food Drink major says drinking its product makes one grow twice as taller;health drink manufacturer solemnly assures that consuming their product for two weeks shall reduce weight by 2 1/2 kgs.;tooth paste mfr declaring that those who use it will not lie; toilet soap mfr asserting that those who use it have 40% risk free from infections. Yet another says they reduce weight by 10 kgs.in three weeks!
Indian HEALTH MINISTRY IS SNORING.Story:
U.S. regulators are examining the growing number of nutrition claims found on the front of food packages after complaints that they give a misleading picture of their health benefits, officials said in a warning to food companies on Tuesday.The Food and Drug Administration is trying to determine if any claims violate federal food labeling rules and “will take enforcement action against any egregious examples,” FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters.
FDA officials also are developing a proposed regulation to define nutritional criteria for claims made on the front of food packages, Hamburg said.
The FDA is acting as companies increasingly add nutrition claims to the front of packages to catch the attention of hurried shoppers who might not read the detailed facts about a food’s content on the back, she added.
“Some nutritionists have questioned whether this information is more marketing-oriented than health-oriented, and judging from some of the labels that we have seen, we think this is a valid concern,” Hamburg
said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE59J5Z620091020 -
Fraudulent Advertising.
In India, companies are going all out in misleading/fraudulent advertising.A Food Drink major says drinking its product makes one grow twice as taller;health drink manufacturer solemnly assures that consuming their product for two weeks shall reduce weight by 2 1/2 kgs.;tooth paste mfr declaring taht those who use it will not lie; toilet soap mfr asserting that those who use it have 40% risk free from infections.
What audacity?What are the health Ministry and other watch dogs doing?
There seems to be IDA( Indian dental Association) which certifies tooth pastes on all their claims.Cocoa Cola has been forced to take back ads for lesser offence in Australia.Why not in India?
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