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Nutritional supplement marketer NutraClick has settled charges of unfair billing of consumers and must change its billing practices, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday Sept. 22 .The FTC stated in a release that the firm lured consumers with what had been advertised as free samples of supplements and other products and then broke the law as NutraClick billed those customers recurring monthly fees without k
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