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San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, October 23, 1991
The Federal Trade Commission's San Francisco office filed suit last February in the U.S. District Court for Northern California, charging that distributor White Cross Inc. of Carrollton, Texas, and others were making false claims about Immune Plus.
FTC investigators charged that the vitamin supplement was being touted as a treatment that could cause AIDS to go into remission and could cause an individual who tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to become HIV- negative.
Also named were Immune Plus' manufacturer, True Health Inc., of Dallas, and Dr. Terry Pulse, a Grand Prairie, Texas, physician who endorsed the product in a videotape presentation.
In a settlement filed yesterday, the defendants in the case said they will no longer promote Immune Plus as an AIDS treatment, although they neither admitted nor denied the allegations in the complaint.
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