Tesco Response Re Bio-Synergy Claims

I have received a response to my email to Tesco regarding the claims made on their behalf in a Daily Mail article about Bio-Synergy Skinny Mousse.

A Complaint To The ASA

After his rapid response question dodging as outlined in my previous post, Bio-Synergy’s Daniel Herman has gone strangely silent. In the meantime a comment posted on the blog suggested that the European Food Standards Agency’s findings perhaps did not exactly match Bio-Synergy’s claims about chromium supplements.

A Dessert That Helps You Slim?

According to today’s (8 July 2011) METRO, a food manufacturer has produced a dessert which, it is implied, will help you diet.

Pain Killers And Heart Disease 2

I have now written to Sarah Getty, London News Editor of the METRO and Fred Attewill, named author of yesterday’s article on painkillers and heart disease. Here is the text of my email:

Pain Killers And Heart Disease

The METRO ran a story today (5 July 2011) under the highly measured headline:

Painkillers ‘increase risk of heart disease’

The first four paragraphs continue this theme:-