{"id":5792,"date":"2012-01-27T04:20:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T02:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=5792"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:58:00","slug":"class-action-suit-filed-usplabs-dmaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/class-action-suit-filed-usplabs-dmaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Action Suit Filed Against USPLabs Over DMAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was filed just a few days before Xmas, so it flew right under my radar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2011\/12\/20\/DietSuppLead.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the complaint filed on Dec. 19 (courtesy of Courthouse News Service):<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plaintiff JOHNNIE PACHECO (&#8220;Plaintiff&#8221;), individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, alleges the following on information and belief.<\/p>\n<p>1. USPLabs LLC (&#8220;Defendant&#8221;) manufactures, markets and sells Jack3d and OxyELITE Pro (collectively &#8220;the Products&#8221;) as &#8220;Ultra-Premium supplements&#8221; that can provide &#8220;safe and effective&#8221; weight loss and muscle building. Defendant claim their Products are &#8220;University Studied&#8221; and that research supports the efficacy and safety claims about their products. Defendant also advertises the Products as &#8220;completely legal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. In reality, both OxyELITE Pro and Jack3d contain an ingredient called 1,3-dimethylamylamine, often referred to as &#8220;DMAA.&#8221; The form of DMAA Defendant sells in the products is a synthetic form that is both illegal and dangerous. The statements about the Products&#8217; legality, safety and efficacy are false and misleading, and the research relied upon by Defendant is inadequate and\/or seriously flawed with regard to Defendant&#8217;s claims&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3. Defendant&#8217;s misrepresentations regarding\u00a0the legality, safety and efficacy of Jack3d and OxyELITE Pro were designed to, and did, lead Plaintiff and others similarly situated (collectively the &#8220;Class&#8221;) to believe that these products were legal, safe and effective. Plaintiff and members of the Class relied on Defendant&#8217;s misrepresentations and would not have paid as much, if at all, for the Products but for the Defendant&#8217;s misrepresentations.<\/p>\n<p>4. Plaintiff brings this class action lawsuit to enjoin the ongoing deception of thousands of California consumers by Defendant, and to recover the money taken by this unlawful practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/class-action-suit-filed-bpi-sports-dmaa\/\">This is right on the heels of another,\u00a0similar\u00a0lawsuit filed against BPI Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information on the case from Nutraingredients-USA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutraingredients-usa.com\/Regulation\/USPLabs-hit-with-class-action-over-DMAA-in-Jack3d-and-OxyELITE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutraingredients-usa.com\/Regulation\/USPLabs-DMAA-is-from-geranium-oil-and-critics-are-uninformed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutraingredients.com\/Research\/Study-Geranium-oils-do-not-contain-DMAA-MHA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was filed just a few days before Xmas, so it flew right under my radar&#8230; From the complaint filed on Dec. 19 (courtesy of Courthouse News Service): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,27,28],"tags":[526,1308,1542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9323,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}