{"title":"Buyer beware.","authors":"M. Mendelsohn","doi":"10.4172/2167-0951.1000e108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0951.1000e108","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A Baltimore businessman, Allen Hoffman, has been charged with consumer fraud after claiming that the aloe vera he was selling was \"almost 100% effective\" in curing AIDS. Prosecutors allege that Hoffman made a variety of false claims about his product, T-UP. He also told consumers he has a Ph.D., that the aloe vera product was developed by Johns Hopkins researchers, and that it has FDA approval. The Maryland Attorney General called this a case of the most \"egregious fraud\" he had ever encountered.\u0000","PeriodicalId":81030,"journal":{"name":"Critical Path AIDS project","volume":"No 33 1","pages":"33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2167-0951.1000e108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70816259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}