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After the passage of the 1906 law many nostrum vendors continued manufacturing and selling their products but changed their advertising tactics. They did not advertise their products in newspapers and magazines as patent medicines, but as apparently innocent ingredients among others in a "prescription" or recipe which the readers were urged to have "filled" at the nearest drugstore. Many of these "prescription fakes" included diet products such as "Fatoff," which made claims about curing obesity. Diet aids continue to he one of the biggest on-going areas of health fraud in the United States.
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