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Your bad breath may be worth $10 Wrigley agrees to pay consumers of Eclipse gum
Your bad breath may be worth $10- Smart Spending - MSN Money
If you have chewed Wrigley's Eclipse gum in the last two years, you're eligible for up to $10 as part of a class-action settlement (.pdf file) over advertising claims.
What? You mean it didn't really kill the germs that cause bad breath? :teeth:
Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. Wrigley had claimed that an ingredient in the gum, magnolia bark extract, killed germs. But the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit said the studies were flawed and there was no scientific proof that magnolia bark extract, a substance used in Chinese medicine for a variety of conditions, killed germs that cause bad breath.
As part of the settlement Wrigley, which did its own research, agreed to quit making those claims and refund up to $6 million to consumers who bought the gum.
Posted by Teresa Mears on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 2:02 PM
Your bad breath may be worth $10- Smart Spending - MSN Money
If you have chewed Wrigley's Eclipse gum in the last two years, you're eligible for up to $10 as part of a class-action settlement (.pdf file) over advertising claims.
What? You mean it didn't really kill the germs that cause bad breath? :teeth:
Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. Wrigley had claimed that an ingredient in the gum, magnolia bark extract, killed germs. But the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit said the studies were flawed and there was no scientific proof that magnolia bark extract, a substance used in Chinese medicine for a variety of conditions, killed germs that cause bad breath.
As part of the settlement Wrigley, which did its own research, agreed to quit making those claims and refund up to $6 million to consumers who bought the gum.
Posted by Teresa Mears on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 2:02 PM