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Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-09:38

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Facua-Consumers in Action has denounced

Pablo Motos

before the Ministries of Health and Consumer Affairs for promoting through his social networks a "pseudo-miraculous" treatment of "cellular regeneration" with supposed benefits against aging and stress "without any scientific basis." ".

In turn, the

National Association of Professionals and Self-Employed in Natural Therapies

(

COFENAT

) and the political group

Iustitia Europa

have filed a complaint in the Supreme Court against the Minister of Health,

Mónica García

Gómez, for alleged crimes of hate and insults. for stating, after learning about the anti-aging treatment carried out by presenter

Pablo Motos

, that "pseudotherapies only have effects on the pocketbook, at best" and that "the lack of scientific evidence can put health at risk."

In Facua

's complaint

, the association asks Health and Consumer Affairs to act within the framework of their respective powers regarding the various "irregularities committed by the presenter and the doctor who accompanies him in the video" published last week on their social media account. Instagram.

"This is one of the most cutting-edge machines in the world in cell regeneration. Today I was able to try it at

Sha Wellness in Alicante

with Dr. Anna Baeza. It seems like science fiction. I'll tell you about it. The sensation is super pleasant," the text stated. from the post published on March 27 by the presenter of

El Hormiguero

on his personal Instagram account, where he has 2.3 million followers.

In the video he inserted next to the message,

Motos

gives way to "Dr. Baeza" to explain how this cold plasma machine from the Sha Wellness clinic supposedly works. This is

Anna Baeza Román

, who in the video, also published on her Instagram account, assures that her method serves to "fight against aging because we are going to neutralize free radicals." She also states that she acts against stress: "that current will directly stimulate the vagus nerve. If we stimulate the vagus nerve, we stimulate and balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic system, and we are fighting chronic stress." Likewise, the healthcare provider points out in the video that her machine converts the air in the room into "cold atmospheric plasma."

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Facua has filed a complaint against

Motos

and

Baeza

with the Ministry of Health for promoting a treatment with "supposed therapeutic purposes without a scientific basis", a practice prohibited as stated in article 4 of Royal Decree 1907/1996, of August 2, on advertising and commercial promotion of products, activities or services with intended health purposes.

This standard states that "any type of advertising or promotion, direct or indirect, mass or individualized, of products, materials, substances, energies or methods with purported health purposes" that engage in a series of practices, among them "that attribute specific preventive or therapeutic effects that are not supported by sufficient technical or scientific evidence accredited and expressly recognized by the State Health Administration."

Furthermore, the same article of the aforementioned Royal Decree expressly prohibits any advertising or promotion of products or methods with purported health purposes, whether or not they are really effective,"that seek to provide testimonies from health professionals, famous people or people known to the public, or patients. real or supposed, as a means of inducing consumption".

Facua has also transferred the facts to the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 given that

Pablo Motos

"does not include in the video or text published on his Instagram account any message clarifying that it is advertising." Thus, the association asks Consumer Affairs to open an investigation to determine whether the practice can also be subject to sanctions for covert advertising in the event that motorcycles have received financial or in-kind compensation from the promoted center.

The Unfair Competition Act of 1991 prohibits surreptitious business practices. In its article 26, it establishes that "it is considered unfair because it is misleading to include as information in the media, communications to promote a good or service, with the businessman or professional paying for said promotion, without it being clearly specified in the content or through images." and sounds clearly identifiable to the consumer or user that it is advertising content".