UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
                                     FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

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In the Matter of                                                )
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GENERAL NUTRITION CORPORATION,                                  )
   a corporation, also trading as                               )
NATURAL SALES COMPANY, and                                      )       DOCKET NO. C-1517
DAVID B. SHAKARIAN,                                             )
  individually and as an officer                                )
  of said corporation.                                          )
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In the Matter of                                                ))      DOCKET NO. 9175
GENERAL NUTRITION, INC.                                         )
   a corporation.                                               )
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    ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART REQUEST TO REOPEN THE
    PROCEEDING AND MODIFY CEASE AND DESIST ORDER IN DOCKET NO. C-1517
  AND DENYING REQUEST TO REOPEN AND MODIFY CEASE AND DESIST ORDER IN
                                          DOCKET NO. 9175

        On May 7, 1999, General Nutrition, Inc. ("GNC") filed a request to reopen the proceedings
in Docket No. C-15171 and 91752, and to modify the orders issued by the Commission, pursuant to
Section 5(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act ("FTC Act"), 15 U.S.C. § 45(b), and Section
2.51 of the Commission's Rules of Practice, 16 C.F.R. § 2.51.3   The request was placed on the
public record for 30 days for comment.  No comments were filed.   GNC also requests that the
Commission seek the Department of Justice's assistance in asking a federal court to modify a 1994
consent decree4 enjoining GNC from violating these two orders and from making deceptive claims
for any hair loss product.

                               I.     THE ORDERS AND THE DECREE


     1  75 F.T.C. 529 (1969), modified, 77 F.T.C. 1458 (1970) ("1969 order").

     2  111 F.T.C. 387 (1989) ("1989 order").

     3  Pursuant to Section 3.72(b)(3)(ii) of the Rules of Practice, 16 C.F.R. § 3.72(b)(3)(ii),
two administrative orders will terminate no sooner than April 28, 2014.

     4  Civil No. 94-686 (W.D. Pa. May 20, 1994).



        The 1969 order applies to all food or drug preparations containing vitamins and/or
minerals marketed by GNC and its "officers . . . agents, representatives and employees, directly or