Kriss Electronics, Inc.
Volume 59 · 59 F.T.C. 102
deceptive advertisingproduct labeling
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In tue Matrer or KRISS ELECTRONICS, INC., ET AL.
CONSENT ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 8173. Complaint, Nov. 14, 1960—Decision, July 22, 1961 Consent order requiring Newark, N.J., manufacturers of rebuilt television picture tubes containing used parts, to cease labeling and otherwise representing their said products falsely as “NEW Television Picture Tubes”, and to disclose clearly to purchasers that such tubes were rebuilt and contained used parts.
Complaint Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act, and by virtue of the authority vested in it by said Act, the Federal Trade Commission, having reason to believe that Kriss Electronics, Inc., a corporation, and Charles Kriss, individually and as an officer of said corporation, hereinafter referred to as respondents, have violated the provisions of said Act, and it appearing to the Commission that a proceeding by it in respect thereof would be in Complaint 59 F.
or improvement in the condition of the skin or scalp unless such is the fact.
( d) That said device will check thinning hair, prevent or overcome baldness or prevent diseases of the hair or scalp; or that said device will effect any correction or improvement of the hair or scalp unless such is the fact.
2. Disseminating or causing to be disseminated any advertisement by any means, for the purpose of inducing, directly or indirectly, the purchase, in commerce, as "commerce is defined in the Federal Trade Commission Act of said device which advertisements contain the representations prohibited in paragraph 1 hereof. DECISION OF THE COl\OIISSION AND ORDER TO FILE REPORT OF COl\-IPLIANCE Pursuant to Section 3.21 of the Commission s Rules of Practice, the initial decision of the hearing examiner shall, on the 19th day of July 1961 , become the decision of the Commission; and, accordingly: is ordered That the respondent herein shall, within sixty (60) days after service upon him of this order, file with the Commission a report in writing setting forth in detail the manner and form in which he has complied with the order to cease and desist.