Health and Nature, Utah Stories April 2021

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Bad Medicine Utah firms to discontinue claims of medical benefits from products By Eric S. Peterson The following story was written and researched

in essential oil research and development.”

by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in

But in 2020 when the company was asked

partnership with Utah Stories.

by the National Advertising Division about

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the science used to justify company claims tah-based Young Living Essential Oils

about its products, the company argued

has boasted of having over 3,000

that it should not be required to provide

global employees, more than six million members, and of being the “world leader

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“competent and reliable evidence.” The NAD ruled against Young Living,


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