They aren't making a therapeutic claim.
That would be a therapeutic claim.
Philosophers have been primarily preoccupied with the scientific status of psychoanalysis and whether its therapeutic claims can be substantiated.
Before a therapeutic claim can be made for a drug, it must be subjected to rigorous testing.
Before legitimate therapeutic claims can be made about bee venom, proper studies - not just anecdotal reports - are needed.
"The days of food companies acting like drug companies are over," he said, referring to seemingly therapeutic claims made by some companies.
Occasionally, definitive therapeutic claims are made that are not supported by sufficient evidence.
Q. Do you buy into the therapeutic claims about herbs?
But as is often the case with wide-ranging commercial therapeutic claims for natural products:
They must not make therapeutic claims that cannot be sustained by rigorous testing.