{"id":6734,"date":"2013-02-22T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6734"},"modified":"2015-02-19T19:13:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T00:13:50","slug":"wrongful-death-suit-filed-against-usp-labs-gnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wrongful-death-suit-filed-against-usp-labs-gnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against USP Labs &#038; GNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USPLabs&#8217; legal woes continue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutraingredients-usa.com\/Regulation\/USPLabs-sets-aside-2m-to-settle-DMAA-class-action-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The company recently settled a class action lawsuit for $2 million dollars.<\/a> Now, its facing another suit, over the death of Michael L. Sparling, one of the two soldiers who died in 2011 while working out after consuming DMAA-containing supplements.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York Times&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now the parents of Michael L. Sparling, one of the soldiers who died, have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against USPlabs, the developer and marketer of Jack3d, and GNC, the store where he bought it. The suit, filed on Wednesday in state court in San Diego, claims that the companies deceptively marketed Jack3d as safe and effective while not warning consumers about its potential health risks. It seeks unspecified punitive damages.<\/p>\n<p>In an e-mail, Laura Brophy, a spokeswoman for GNC, which is set to announce its earnings Thursday morning, said the company did not comment on pending litigation. Representatives of USPlabs and the Vitamin Shoppe did not immediately respond to e-mail or return telephone calls seeking comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The F.D.A. has received 60 reports of health problems in people who had ingested products containing DMAA, including reports of at least two deaths. Federal regulators cautioned that the reports did not prove the products themselves caused the health problems. Even so, they said they had safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a drug. That certainly calls into question whether it even fits in the supplement space,\u201d Daniel Fabricant, the director of the F.D.A.\u2019s division of dietary supplement programs, said in a telephone interview last week. \u201cWe continue to send warning letters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPLabs&#8217; legal woes continue. The company recently settled a class action lawsuit for $2 million dollars. Now, its facing another suit, over the death of Michael L. Sparling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22,27],"tags":[526,950],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734"}],"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=6734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9942,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions\/9942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}