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IHRB’s shrinking website is still in breach of TGA Orders

IHRB’s shrinking website is still in breach of TGA Orders

Once upon a time, IHRB’s website was voluminous. Page after page of diatribe. Eventually, the Authorities Ordered Mr Sam Cohen to remove his ‘unlawful, misleading and unverified’ claims. Via his solicitor, Mr Cohen wrote to the TGA, protesting his innocence, asking the TGA to specifically prove where and how he has been found guilty. In response to one of […]

Nader calls on Minister Mason-Cox to prosecute IHRB

Nader calls on Minister Mason-Cox to prosecute IHRB

Consumer Advocate Jonar Nader is calling on the Minister for Fair Trading, The Hon Matthew Mason-Cox, and his team at the Department of Fair Trading, to investigate Sam Cohen of the Institute of Hair Regrowth and Beauty (IHRB) over allegations that Mr Cohen is scamming thousands of consumers, to the tune of millions of dollars, […]

Cohen criticises Ashely & Martin and Advanced Hair Studio

Cohen criticises Ashely & Martin and Advanced Hair Studio

Mr Sam Cohen of IHRB spoke with Channel Seven News reporter Mr Alex Hart at the door of IHRB’s office in Leichhardt while eight Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) investigators were inside, executing yet another Search Warrant, amidst allegations that Mr Cohen had breached HCCC Prohibition Orders. During the interview, Mr Cohen pointed the finger at […]

IHRB’s 77-page misleading sales kit

IHRB’s 77-page misleading sales kit

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has told Mr Sam Cohen of IHRB that it would be a criminal offence if he publishes any of the advertisements that were Sanctioned (after being found to be ‘unlawful, misleading, and unverified’). So, what does Mr Cohen do? He turns to his 77-page sales kit filled with misleading statements, unverified testimonials, and half-truths. […]

TGA goes public: IHRB must publish retractions

TGA goes public: IHRB must publish retractions

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has today made public the Regulation 9 Order that it served on IHRB. The Order demands that IHRB publish a retraction that informs the world that the advertisements which IHRB published, should not have been published because IHRB, ‘unlawfully made claims that the products could aid in hair regrowth…’ The TGA also Orders […]

Deciphering IHRB’s unlawful ads

Deciphering IHRB’s unlawful ads

The Complaints Resolution Panel had determined that Sam Cohen’s IHRB advertisements are ‘Unlawful, misleading, and unverified’. The Panel imposed Sanctions on IHRB. This was followed-up by the big-guns in Canberra at the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which is part of the Federal Department of Health. The TGA has Ordered IHRB to cease and desist, by […]

IHRB seeks TGA review while in breach of law

IHRB seeks TGA review while in breach of law

IHRB is pushing its luck in trying to appeal the decision by the Therapeutic Goods Administration that has slapped IHRB with a Regulation 9 Order. The Order prohibits IHRB from publishing its ‘unlawful, misleading, and unverified’ advertisements. It also requires IHRB to publish retractions, and to erase most of its website. IHRB’s letter to the Minister for Health […]

Gored by his own bull

Gored by his own bull

In an ABC TV documentary in 2008, Mr Sam Cohen told the nation that he can ‘block the balding gene’. Yet, in May 2012, he wrote to the Therapeutic Goods Administration to protest his innocence to insist that he never said he could block the balding gene. He was reacting to the Sanctions that were […]

Can Sam Cohen block the balding gene?

Can Sam Cohen block the balding gene?

Mr Sam Cohen of IHRB is crying foul. He proclaims that he ‘never’ said he could block the balding gene. This article will show you the kinds of vacuous protests with which his victims must contend. Let us commence with his website which the Complaints Resolution Panel has already found to be, ‘Unlawful, misleading and […]