Friday 23 September 2022 01:56 AM JSHealth says it 'didn't mean' to claim its product cures Alzheimer's trends now
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A vitamin brand popular with Australian celebrities and influencers has released a statement saying it never meant to imply its turmeric formula cures cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
Sydney-based JSHealth, founded by multimillionaire Jessica Sepel, was slapped with a $26,640 fine by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for unlawful advertising after claiming its supplements could prevent 'serious health conditions'.
The brand responded to the ruling in an Instagram post on Thursday 'clarifying' an earlier blog post which had advertised the supposed benefits of JSHealth's Turmeric+ formula.
The statement also accused news outlets of having 'misconstrued the situation'.
A vitamin brand popular with Australian celebrities and influencers has released a statement saying it never meant to imply its turmeric formula cures cancer and Alzheimer's disease. (Pictured: multimillionaire JSHealth founder Jessica Sepel)
'In this blog we introduced our formula and listed its official indications,' a JSHealth representative wrote.
'In a separate section, we briefly discussed C3 turmeric extract, an ingredient in our Turmeric+ formula, citing the research studies behind this isolated ingredient as we found them to be interesting.
'It was never our intention to suggest that those studies relate to our formula itself, but simply the ingredient C3 extract
