Protect My Claims

Know What You Can Defend Before Someone Else Questions It

I Don't Want Our Claims to Become an FDA/FTC Problem

Your product may have research behind its ingredients, but that does not automatically mean every claim on the label, website, ad, or sales material is supported.

Fowoyo Scientific Consulting reviews the research behind your proposed or existing claims and determines how closely the evidence supports what you are saying.

The goal is to help you identify problems before they become FDA/FTC concerns, retailer questions, legal problems, corrective advertising, relabeling costs, or damage to customer trust.

Supplement claim review and scientific substantiation

Is This the Problem You Are Facing?

This Service May Be a Fit If

You are concerned that one or more of your claims could become an FDA/FTC problem

You are unsure whether your current claims have enough scientific support

Marketing wants stronger language but you are concerned it may go too far

Your claims rely on research conducted on ingredients rather than your finished product

The studies used a different dose or ingredient form

You are preparing for a website, label, advertising, or campaign review

A retailer, investor, buyer, regulator, or other outside party may examine your claims

You want to find weaknesses before someone else does

What We Look At

We Compare the Claim Against the Research Behind It

That includes questions such as:

Was the same ingredient studied?

Was the same amount used?

Was the research conducted in the right type of people?

Did the study actually measure the benefit you are claiming?

How strong and consistent are the results?

Does the wording of the claim go further than the research?

Are important limitations being left out?

The purpose is not simply to find studies. It is to determine whether those studies actually support your claim.

What You Receive

Claim Substantiation Dossier

Your dossier should give you a clear record of:

The dossier contains the supporting documentation behind these claim-by-claim decisions, giving the company a substantiation record for its files and for review by its legal or regulatory advisers.

GO

Adequate scientific support identified for the claim as written.

MODIFY

Potentially supportable with different or qualified wording to reduce scientific or regulatory vulnerability.

STOP

Insufficient scientific support or significant claim vulnerability identified, including potential FDA/FTC concern.

EVIDENCE GAP

Additional evidence is needed before the claim can be adequately substantiated.

Supporting documentation

The substantiation record behind each claim decision for the company's internal files and review by its legal or regulatory advisers.

Claim-by-claim rationale

A clear explanation of why each claim received its decision and what should happen next.

Build your claim defense before you need it.

What This Can Help You Avoid

Find the Problem Before It Becomes Expensive

FDA/FTC and other regulatory problems

Claims that go beyond what can reasonably be supported.

Costly relabeling or campaign changes

Finding the problem after materials have already been produced.

Launch delays

Claims becoming a late-stage disagreement.

Retailer or investor concerns

Weaknesses being discovered during outside review.

Legal and reputational risk

Making promises that the underlying evidence cannot adequately support.

When to Use This Service

Use Protect My Claims Before the Question Becomes Urgent

Before launch

While claims are still being developed.

Before a major campaign

Before advertising spend is committed.

For an existing product

To review claims already in the market.

Before external scrutiny

When preparing for a retailer, investor, buyer, regulator, or other reviewer.

What This Service Does Not Do

Scientific Substantiation Is Not a Regulatory Guarantee

FSC does not guarantee that FDA, FTC, or another regulator will accept a particular claim, nor does scientific substantiation replace legal advice where legal counsel is required.

We provide the independent scientific assessment behind the claim so you and your other advisers can make a better-informed decision.

Have Claims You Need Reviewed?

Send us the claims you are using or considering, along with the product or ingredient information available.

We will determine the scope of the evaluation and whether Protect My Claims is the right service for the question.

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