Airborne reaches $7 million settlement over false advertising claims

December 17th, 2008 By Susan Kelleher

Airborne Health, makers of a top-selling product marketed as a cold prevention and treatment remedy, signed a $7 million settlement Tuesday to settle false advertising claims leveled by 32 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia.


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