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| Product type | Dietary supplements, Vitamin supplements |
|---|---|
| Owner | Reckitt |
| Country | United States |
| Previous owners | Schiff Nutrition |
| Website | www |
Airborne is an American brand of dietary supplement containing herbal extracts, amino acids, antioxidants, electrolytes, vitamins, and other ingredients originally marketed as preventing the common cold and improving immune function.[1]
The benefits of its use are unsupported by robust clinical research.[1] There are no studies supporting Airborne's effectiveness that meet scientific standards.[2] The former owners were fined by the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive advertising and were the subject of successful class actions.[2]
It was created by schoolteacher Victoria Knight-McDowell in the early 1990s. The website does not list any side effects that one might experience after taking Airborne, aside from "some sensitivity to any of the vitamins or herbal extracts".[3] It is offered for sale over-the-counter in many U.S. retail stores in multiple forms: effervescent tablet, gummy, chewable tablet, lozenge, tablet, or powder.[4]
- ^ a b "Cold Remedy Airborne Settles Lawsuit". March 4, 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
- ^ a b Novella, Steven (March 26, 2008). "Airborne Settles Case On False Advertising". Retrieved 16 December 2015.
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