The Right Move…For The Wrong Reasons
After signalling its intention to act, the FDA finally made it official: warning letters have been sent to several manufacturers of homeopathic HCG weight loss supps. In today’s announcement, the FDA described it as the “first step” towards getting them off the online and retail market. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today issued seven Warning Letters to companies...
FTC Temporarily Halts Fake News Sites Selling Weight Loss Supplements
Another day, another supplement scam. The FTC is coming down on yet-another-bunch-of-crooks using phony “news” sites to separate people from their money. The complaint alleges that the defendants hired affiliate marketers who used fake news websites to promote the defendants’ products. The fake news websites used domain names that appear to be objective news or health sites, such as channel8health.com,...
Class Action Suit Filed Against BPI Sports Over DMAA
From Courthouse News Service: LOS ANGELES (CN) – A class action claims Florida-based BPI Sports’ bodybuilding and dietary supplements “contain a dangerous amphetamine-like ingredient that poses a serious health risk and has potentially life-threatening side effects.” … “At the time plaintiffs Clint Eskenazi and Camden Brady … purchased and used the products, they were unaware the products...
FTC Orders Hoodia Scammers to Turn Over Assets
The press release sez it all: …the Federal Trade Commission settled charges brought against three people and two companies for deceptively advertising a supposed weight-loss supplement ingredient. One defendant is banned from making any weight-loss claims related to foods, drugs, or dietary supplements and must turn over a vacation home and other assets to the FTC; another is banned from the dietary supplement business; and all...
Vites and Minerals are Dietary Supplements; but Not all Dietary Supplements are Vites and Minerals
Unless you’ve been living in a cave the last week or so, I’m sure you’ve heard about the latest study on dietary supplements. If you go by the headlines (as many folks simply scanning the news do), I wouldn’t blame you for concluding that dietary supplements are dangerous, in general – at least for older women. After all, that’s what the news articles proclaim: “Dietary Supplements Risky for...
Woman Hospitalized After ODing on 5-Hour Energy
Honestly… what do some people use for brains? Case in point: The 22-year-old woman who arrived at an emergency room complaining of upper abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and a slight fever, according to the June 22 edition of the Journal of Medical Case Reports. A scan of her midsection was normal. She was sent home. She returned, however, even sicker, and bathed in a yellowish tint — jaundice — meaning her liver was...
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